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CHAPTER III
LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS
Of course the first thing to do was to
make a grand survey of the country
she was going to travel through.
"It's something very like learning
geography," thought Alice, as she
stood on tiptoe in hopes of being able
to see a little farther. "Principal rivers—there
are none. Principal mountains—I'm
on the only one, but I don't
think it's got any name. Principal
towns—why, what are those creatures,
making honey down there? They
can't be bees—nobody ever saw bees
a mile off, you know—" and for some
time she stood silent, watching one of
them that was bustling about among
the flowers, poking its proboscis into