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Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have 

 set. Prav. xxii. 28. 



NO text in Hebrew Scripture is more com- 

 pletely forgotten than this, and yet it merits 

 as much consideration as the average quotation 

 from Genesis to the Apocrypha. Everywhere we 

 are removing landmarks ; nowhere are we rearing 

 them. But I write of the country, not the town, 

 of which I know nothing. Scraps of old journals 

 and quaint entries in time-worn commonplace- 

 books have given me an insight into the conditions 

 of my own neighborhood two centuries ago, and 

 it has taken only two hundred years to bring down 

 the beauty Nature was long in building to the level 

 of the commonplace. In the struggle for wealth 

 we have made the land poor, and have not en- 

 riched ourselves. My neighbor has a large farm 

 here in New Jersey, and spends the winter in 

 Florida, that he may see the country. In other 

 words, he robbed his own home, years ago, to pay 

 the railroad and his board bill, and now bemoans 

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