82 THE PINE AND HEATHER COUNTRY 



already nearly in sight ; though in the parts of Dorset- 

 shire adjacent to the Poole district there is still a great 

 extent of similar country available, and the question 

 arises, Where else will be found the same conditions ? 

 Perhaps on the Norfolk heaths ; or, if the climate of 

 the East Coast is a barrier, we may see the growth of 

 another and more perfect city in the pines, in the wide 

 sand-hills of the Landes, between the Garonne and the 

 Adour in sunny Gascony. 



