Postscript: 

 MAN AND LAND 



A VALLEY OF TOMORROW TELLS A STORY 



He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the 

 waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these en- 

 chantments, is the rich and royal man. 



-RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 



AS YOU spin into the Valley on a pleasant summer day, it 

 /j^- is ready with a smile and with a story. Fortunately 

 the outlook at every point along the way is so restful that 

 one slows his pace for the enjoyment of it, for he who rides 

 slowly can read a part of the Valley's story in hills and woods, 

 brooks and ponds, and cultivated acres. 



The Valley is not of the rugged picturesque type; not 

 mountainous but with low rolling hills, a few of them fairly 

 steep, and a generous proportion of nearly level land. No 

 line of superior hills stands out so that the traveler's eye can 

 trace the watershed. Yet here is a definite drainage area, 

 some 20 miles in length and varying from 2 to 10 miles in 

 width; and it has many clear brooks and small streams which 

 wind their way along the Valley to form what is locally 

 called a river, although this river is not important enough to 

 have a place on any general map. It is one of the least of 

 a series of streams that contribute to the making of a great 

 river. 



Before the first settlers came it was almost completely 

 wooded. Lying near the border line between the zones of 

 conifers and hardwood, it had a mixed growth; a little pine 



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