Native Brooks. 83 



with its thousands of employes, only one or two would 

 recognize their implements scattered among the other 

 stones on the sand. 



There are many brooks on the eastern portion of the 

 Island, too small to be recorded on any map and known 

 to but few, but it is with brooks as when viewing a great 

 estate, just as often the little gate house, as the mansion on 

 the hill, that leaves the most pleasing impression. Many 

 a man remembers with affection the rill that turned his 

 first water wheel, or maybe where the brook-mint grew, 

 and though enlarged experience may show that it was a 

 poor little stream indeed, yet it is the one that brings the 

 tears to his eyes. 



