CHAPTER IV 

 The Music of the Seasons 



Old Tidewater Virginia is the ideal spot 

 in America for a home all the year round. 

 Northern people have a very erroneous idea 

 of the heat of its summers. I have spent 

 summers at Gloucester, Massachusetts, on 

 Long Island, and the Jersey coast ; but there 

 is no place on the Atlantic that compares in 

 comfort to the shores of Old Virginia. The 

 Gulf Stream, which almost touches the 

 beaches here, maintains its temperature of 

 70 the year round. In winter it tempers the 

 cold, and in summer it lowers the heat. We 

 have the most even temperature to be found 

 in the East. 



We have long, beautiful springs. Winter 

 never lingers in the lap of spring 'until it 



