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health thcan riding in fashionable luxurious carriages. We 

 have known several invalid ladies who have entirely recovered 

 their health by this same sort of exercise. 



Are there any young ladies here, who are losing the color 

 from their cheek, or the elasticity of their step, — whose pa- 

 rents are contemplating a trip to Florida, to avoid our New 

 England winter, or have sought the mountains in summer, — 

 did you ever try the medicine of walking? Do you know 

 where in all your vicinity to find the earliest Arbutus, Hepa- 

 tica, or Bloodroot ? Do you know iji what meadows to look 

 for the Orchids, and every knoll that is congenial to the Col- 

 umbine and Saxifrage? At this season, can you find the 

 Fringed Gentian ? Or can you tell how many varieties of 

 Aster and Golden Kod are within sight of your homes ? 



Are there any professional gentlemen here, or those of sed- 

 entary habits, who are troubled with dyspepsia, and are look- 

 ing forward to a longer summer vacation as their only hope ? 

 Do you know all the species and varieties of trees and shrubs 

 within five miles of your doors ? Or have you studied the 

 rocks and minerals which compose these hills, and form these 

 valleys ? Probabl}^ none of us realize and appreciate as we 

 should the beauty and grandeur of these scenes around us. 

 Bayard Taylor, after having travelled over all Europe, when 

 standing on the top of Pow-wow Hill in Salisbury, is said to 

 have remarked that he never before had seen anything so 

 beautiful. Why need any of us go abroad in search of beau- 

 tiful scenery when nature has done so much for us at our very 

 doors ? Do you in this section fully appreciate your lovely 

 Merrimac, with its tributaries, the Spicket and Shawsheen ; 

 those hills of Andover — Boxford with her twenty ponds, 

 Wenham and Essex with their deep damp woods, — Cape Ann 

 with its unsurpassed drives, its variety of ocean woodland 

 and villa ; the shore towns with their seventy-five miles of 

 sea coast? All these form a scene of beauty and loveliness 

 nowhere excelled, if equalled, in this country'or the world. 



Farmers of Essex County : I congratulate you upon this 



