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I mean that of noble views extending far beyond its 

 borders. These are of such extent and so composed 

 and their foregrounds within the property are so 

 easily adapted to increase their value: their interest is 

 so varied according to the direction of the outlook and 

 the passing effect of clouds and atmospheric condi- 

 tions, that it is not only impossible to speak of them 

 in adequate terms of admiration, but trying to make 

 a business estimate of them and seeking standards 

 of comparison for the purpose, it will be found 

 that what communities have been able to obtain by 

 expenditures counting in millions of dollars is really 

 too insignificant to be available for the purpose. " 



"It might be a question whether the most valuable 

 influence of properties of this class (mountainous) 

 is to be found in such distinct sensational features, 

 even though provided by nature, as are commonly 

 most consciously felt, most talked about, and written 

 about, or in more unobtrusive, pervading, homelike 

 qualities of which the effects come to us less in a 

 torrent-like way than as the gentle persuasive dew, 

 falling so softly as to be imperceptible and yet 

 delightfully invigorating in its results. Even this 

 might be to some a question, but let any man ask 

 himself whether the value of such views as the grand- 

 est that the mountain offers is greater when they are 

 made distinct spectacles, or when they are enjoyed 

 as successive incidents of a sustained landscape poem 

 to each of which the mind is gradually, sweetly led 



