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road, is the Prospect Home Farm, and beyond these the Lauter- 
brunnen Farm. 
It is but a short step from this last farm to the residence of 
Mr. Letchworth. Here we find a commodious house with an 
ample porch on two sides, with large columns running up for 
two stories, so that many of the sleeping apartments look out 
upon it. To one side, between the residence and the front gate, 
is a little pond with a fountain playing continuously, fed by a 
perennial spring in the hillside near by. is fountain seems to 
be a vista-point, for it may be seen here and there from various 
parts of the grounds. Large evergreen and deciduous trees 
surround the house, among them a fine American elm and some 
magnificent specimens of the Norway spruce, perfect in shape 
and branched entirely to the ground, their long branches trailing 
in the grass. From the group of trees surrounding the house 
spread broad lawns, the planting so arranged as to form charm- 
ing vistas, which terminate in many cases in the woodland beyond. 
The open stretches of lawn contain no flower beds, and the 
shrubbery does not oo ee and detract from the harmony 
falls and gorge meet the eye as one strollsalong the paths. All 
trees and shrubs not native to the vicinity are confined to the 
regions in the immediate neighborhood of the residence, so that 
the woodlands beyond contain native plants only, It isa delight 
to walk through these woods and see the tulip-trees, white pines, 
Norway pines, cucumber-trees, elms, oaks, chestnuts, beeches, 
hornbeams, butternuts, and many other trees, natives of this 
region, in such great abundance. 
ne of the roads through these woodlands finally leads us to 
structed of hewn logs, is about forty feet long and seventeen feet 
wide. Its exact age is uncertain, but it is known to antedate the 
revolution. It is a work of the Seneca Indians, and was formerly 
located at Caneadea, or Ga-o-ya-de-o, the uppermost of their 
