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" I have learned 

 To look on nature, not as in the hour 

 Of thoughtless youth." 



— IVordszi'otih. 



We are ]nit here to secrete something 

 everlasting out of nature." 



— 'I'/ioiiias Sfarr A'/z/i''. 



UR hill-town of (lardncr, sittiated on the highest 

 part of the backlxjne of the .state, on the cre.st 

 of the ridge between Wachnsett and Monad- 

 nock, i.s 1 200 feet aljove the sea, and in suni- 

 nier all the breezes of New Ivngland fan her 

 brow. The waters flow awa}- in every direc- 

 tion ; to the west by Otter River, to the north by Miller's River, to the 

 east by the Nashtia, and to the .sotith by a Inanch of the Ware River. 

 The roof-tree of more than one honse in Gardner divides the rain drops 

 as they fall, to send part to the Connecticut and the Sottnd, and part to 

 the ocean above Cape Ann. No wonder she can 1)oa.st the best record 

 in the Commonwealth for the smallest percentage of deaths from con- 

 sumption. Built on the tops of her seven hills, whichever wa}' we go 

 is "down-hill." Winchendon lies 200 feet below to the north and 400 

 feet to the west ; Templeton from 400 feet below at Baldwinville to only 



