FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 247 



Success is most likely in the tropics, though 

 I think Uuderledge would have afforded an 

 especially promising field during the past 

 summer. 



The wind has, in one way or other, been 

 harnessed to the chariot of progress since 

 the earliest time upon the sea, and through 

 many generations upon the land. It is in 

 the latter direction that we must expect 

 most progress to be made in the future. 

 Let us hope that the coming windmill will 

 not be such a blot upon the landscape as 

 those with which we have been afflicted 

 during the past half-century. I suppose 

 that we cannot expect anything so pictur 

 esque as the old mill of Holland. 



Lastly we come to the water. Probably 

 the waters that come down at Lodore, as 

 well as those of Niagara, the falls of Min- 

 nehaha and of Montmorency, and all the 

 sublime and beautiful torrents that have 

 inspired art or literature, must ultimately 

 turn some one s mill wheel. But all the 

 power of the accessible streams combined, 

 is of small account when compared with 

 that stored up or available in the ocean 

 tides. Everywhere upon our eastern shore 

 bears the mass of the Atlantic. On the 

 west we have the Pacific, and on the south 



