EAST AND WEST 
CHAPTER I 
THE INHERITANCE 
ps an annual migration from East to West I 
have become increasingly aware of the 
immensity of that inheritance in Nature which 
has descended to us Americans. Here we 
have room under the stars. Here we have 
the most beautiful playground in the world. 
Such has been my own enjoyment in it; so 
great a resource has it been that, as a natural- 
ist and one of the inheritors, it appeals to 
me as an agreeable duty, a slight return for 
benefits received, that I should say some 
word—inadequate as it must be—in ‘appre- 
ciation of that vast estate which we happily 
share in common, we who have eyes and 
ears. In this wonderful garden which lacks 
neither mountains, deserts nor forests, which 
includes all zones from the alpine to the 
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