BEAUTY AND MANKIND 231 



placed where the natural scenery is finest. Humbler 

 dwellings whenever the owner has the opportunity 

 of making a choice are for a similar reason built 

 wherever a beautiful view, however limited, may 

 be obtained. Whole towns even are built on spots 

 where the surroundings are most beautiful, or, at 

 any rate, if for some other reason they were located 

 where they are they tend to spread in the direction 

 of most beauty. Dartmouth was originally built 

 where it is because tnat site made an excellent port. 

 But the new town has spread all over the cliffs at 

 the entrance of the harbour wherever a beautiful 

 view may be found. It is the same with Torquay. 

 People originally went there on account of the 

 warm, soft air. But though they can get much 

 the same air in any part of the Torquay area, where 

 they like to build their houses is where they can get 

 the finest views. 



On the Continent a similar tendency may be 

 observed. Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Biarritz, 

 Montreux, Vevey, were no doubt originally located 

 where they are for other reasons than only the 

 facilities they afford for observing Natural Beauty, 

 but that they have grown to what they are is un- 

 doubtedly due to Natural Beauty, and Natural 

 Beauty has given the direction in which they have 

 expanded. It is not by chance that villas and 

 terraces and hotels have been built just on those 

 particular points from which the most beautiful 

 views may be seen. 



And how great is the influence of Natural 

 Beauty upon the movements of men may be 

 gathered from the amount of money railway 



