THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



Swamp. Killarney is, doubtless, a pretty 

 lake, and I would like to go and see it. 

 Neufchatel is a beautiful sheet of water, 

 and the best of all I saw in Switzerland. 

 But one can live with such lakes as Seneca 

 and Winnepesaukee. I lived seven years 

 with Champlain, and loved it better every 

 day. And the landscape was made to be 

 lived in, — not for occasional visits. 



We have trees in America. It is no 

 vain, boastful Americanism to say we have 

 the greatest trees in the world. The red- 

 woods of California are indeed a sight, and 

 so not proper to the true uses of landscape. 

 But the maples of Ohio, the long-leaf pines 

 of South Carolina, and the elms of Con- 

 necticut are unsurpassed and unsurpassable. 

 I once told an Englishman (under provoca- 

 tion) that the trees in the Connecticut 

 valley were finer than anything in Britain. 

 He upbraided me vehemently for prejudice; 

 but afterward, when he visited Sunderland, 

 Amherst, Old Hadley, and Northampton, 

 he was as fully convinced as I was. 



The Himalayas must be glorious. I 

 should like to see them before they become 

 fashionable. But meanwhile I enjoy the 

 Rocky Mountains, and with all my hejirt I 



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