A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
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rentage per annum more than equal to the money value of the yearly
growth of these trees. Besides, the landlord has, in all probability, a large park of trees around his mansion, and perhaps compact plantations on land unsuited to agriculture. Thus the high value of these hedge-row trees around the fields of his tenant, which he will realise on the spot, together with some additional pounds in rent annually to himself and heirs, would probably facilitate this levelling arrangement in face of all the restrictions that the law of entail might seem to throw in the way. If, therefore, the hedges of England disappear before the noiseless and furtive progress of utilitarian science, the trees that rise above them in such picturesque ranks will be almost certain to go with them. Then, indeed, a change will come over the face of the country, which will make it difficult for one to recognise it who daguerreotyped its most beautiful features upon his memory before they were obliterated by these latter-day "improvements." CHAPTER V. A FOOTPATH WALK AND ITS INCIDENTS--HARVEST ASPECTS--ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SKIES--HUMBLER OBJECTS OF CONTEMPLATION--THE DONKEY: ITS USES AND ABUSES. Immediately after breakfast the following morning, my kind host accompanied me for a mile on my walk, and put me on a footpath |
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