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                           THE DUNE COUNTRY

                         _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_


                        THE VOICES OF THE DUNES

                  QUARTO      BOARDS        $6.00 NET


                               ETCHING:

                         A PRACTICAL TREATISE

              CROWN QUARTO        CLOTH        $2.50 NET

                            [Illustration:

                           The Dune Country.]




                                  THE
                             DUNE COUNTRY

                                 _By_

                             EARL H. REED

                               AUTHOR OF
                       “THE VOICES OF THE DUNES”
                    “ETCHING: A PRACTICAL TREATISE”

                       WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS
                             BY THE AUTHOR

                      NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
                  LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
                     TORONTO: S. B. GUNDY, MCMXVI


                            COPYRIGHT, 1916
                         BY JOHN LANE COMPANY


                               PRESS OF
                           EATON & GETTINGER
                           NEW YORK, U.S.A.




                             _To_ C. C. R.




INTRODUCTION


The text and illustrations in this book are intended to depict a strange
and picturesque country, with some of its interesting wild life, and a
few of the unique human characters that inhabit it.

The big ranges of sand dunes that skirt the southern and eastern shores
of Lake Michigan, and the strip of sparsely settled broken country back
of them,