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chaparral

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chaparral

Thick scrub country of the southwestern USA. Thorny bushes have replaced what was largely evergreen oak trees.



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As we emerged from the chaparral Morgan was but a few yards in advance.
She had not proceeded a hundred yards before she noticed the moving figure of a man beyond her in the hillside chaparral above the trail.
Dawn caught us on the northern brow, and in the gray light we dropped down through chaparral into redwood canyons deep and warm with the breath of passing summer.
 
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