Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from In Portia's Gardens
Imagine a huge wooded ridge of trap and gravel, fronting the rising sun and the sea, some three miles long and between two and three hundred feet high, bearing upon its broad back orchards and farms and Villas, and bird-haunted meadows and groves, lazily turning windmills, springs of sweet water, and old Winding lanes full of mints and ?owers, berries, wild cherries, and ferns, - a natural pleasance in which that gray aborigine, the woodchuck, the crafty red fox, the red and gray squirrel, the sooty crow, and all the songster birds find their homes and fight their battles for existence.
Think of this broad ridge as connected by a lonely country road, nine miles long, with the town of Emerson and Thoreau, and as sloping down southward through an old forest to cool its heels in a pretty brook, that, after its leap over the rocks, ripples along by the foot of a glacier kame, or horseback, out of which tower gigantic oaks that were trees of goodly size before the landing of the Pilgrims.
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