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is the fact of its perfect healthfulness and 

 security from nuisance. 



The lawn is high ground rising abruptly 

 from eight to ten feet from the water line, a 

 stiff clay soil mixed with sand, with no marsh 

 grass or mosquito pools. The grass of the 

 lawn rolls sheer into the dead line of the salt 

 tide. There are mosquitoes and malaria in 

 Tidewater Virginia if you choose their loca- 

 tion. The lawn of Elmington Manor is a 

 beautiful little peninsula behind which 

 stretches the estate of five hundred acres 

 into the hills. 



This little peninsula juts out into the 

 waters of the river at the head of its 

 navigable channel, just where the current 

 makes a sharp bend to the right and two 

 large creeks sweep inland to the left, giving 

 views of the water from every window in 

 the house and from every point at which 

 a rustic seat may be placed on the lawn. 

 The creek flows gracefully through the lawn 



