90 pamiijIar features op the roadside. 



moonlight (not sun !) it was possible for the great 

 Beethoven to so exactly reproduce the music which 

 one hears at night in midsummer among the High- 

 lands of the Hudson in the vicinity of Anthony's 

 Nose and Storm King without ever having set his 

 foot upon American soil it is difficult to imagine ! 

 For there are no singing fields in the old country, 

 comparatively speaking ; the m.eadows of England, 

 Tuscany, or Switzerland in May, June, or August 

 are silent — that, at least, is my remembrance of them. 

 And I may also add that a field in the White Moim- 

 tain region of New Hampshire is only half musical, 

 again comparatively speaking. The meadow music 

 which one may hear at twilight on Long Island, 

 Staten Island, in the Catskill Moimtains, in the 

 Highlands of the Hudson, around Lake IMahopae in 

 Putnam County, and in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, 

 N. Y., in Saddle River, Bergen County, and the 

 counties of Monmouth, Atlantic, and Salem in New 

 Jersey, and in various parts of Delaware, Maryland, 

 and Virginia, is /«;■ beyond what one will hear in 

 eitlier Maine or New Hampshire. I refer exclusively 

 ti) insect music. On or al^out the first of September, 

 when the wooded slopes of the Navesink Highlands, 

 New Jersey, are thrilling with the songs of crickets 

 and katydids, the woods and fields of northern New 

 Hampshire are almost silent. But we can not expect 



