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pasture fields and follow the windings of the noble stream 

 by the luxuriant growth of overhanging poplars that fringe 

 its banks, forming in many places a dense shaded archway, 

 under which the waters dally along in graceful eddies, or 

 linger in deeper pools before venturing on over the next 

 gravelly shoal that obstructs its usually slow and dignified 

 way. 



You here observe how much the landscape resembles the 

 most beautiful parts of rural England. Nowhere in America, 

 I believe, can be found so good a representation of English 

 country scenery, as are the fields which form this particular 

 view. 



When the original pioneer, Wadsworth, came to the valley, 

 he brought with him a love for the beautiful, and a tree was 

 among the first on the list. Fortunately his descendants, who 

 inherited these broad acres, have had the good sense and good 

 taste to leave the fields studded with great forests, oaks, maples, 

 hickory, black walnut and butternut, giving to the landscape, 

 as in England, the appearance of a great park. This feature 

 and the fertility of the soil is one of the most noted character- 

 istics of the Genesee Valley. 



Beneath the foliage of wide spreading trees, the suckling 

 and weanling hunters sport and play, and the matronly look- 

 ing in-foal mares lie dreaming of the chase or counting the 

 hunt cups their unborn foals are to capture at Madison Square, 

 where they themselves have won high honours and the applause 

 of thousands. 



It is here also, in detached herds, that the bullocks lie, 

 gracefully dipping their wide-spreading horns in unison with 

 the milling of the sweet tender grasses they hurriedly col- 

 lected, fresh ^\dth the morning dew. Their half dropping 

 eyehds, the expression of ecstasy, contentment and solid com- 

 fort, their mellow hides and sleek, shiny coats, all proclaim the 

 fattening qualities of the nutritious forage. 



