MOUNTAINS AND IIILLS 
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Great Britain have made it a country of hills. 
Nowhere are they to be seen in such beautiful 
combinations, and to them England, in particn- 
lar, is much indebted for its beautiful scenery. 
Tn all seasons, in foliage or with snow, the coun- 
try of low hills is an attractive country. The 
charm of Normandy and the Rhine provinces, 
as of New England, lies in the broken, undu- 
lating surface. To whatever point of the com- 
pass we turn there is unity in variety. The 
amphitheatre of hills surrounding Amherst 
in Massachusetts does not grow monotonous to 
those who look out upon it from day to day. The 
encircling parapets always have a new tale to 
tell, a new wonder to reveal. No sun gilds 
them twice in just the same way, no atmosphere 
is repeated for any two days, and the mantle of 
green in summer, the robe of white in winter, 
are never the same from year to year. 
Fortunately enough the round-topped hill, 
upon which the Assyrian built a city and the 
medizval baron a castle, is to-day left to nature 
to do with as it pleases. The modern builder 
places his city on flat ground, and if there is 
any little mound in his way he levels it into 
any little valley that may be near at hand. He 
wishes everything flat and squared in his city, 
New 
England 
ranges. 
Hills and 
civilization, 
