It is a high tract of country from which one looks across the lower reaches
to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, whose wholesome breath,
all unobstructed, here blends with the woods-odors of the beech, the hickory,
and the muscadine: a part of a range recalled elsewhere by Mr. Lanier
as `that ample stretch of generous soil, where the Appalachian ruggednesses
calm themselves into pleasant hills before dying quite away
into the sea-board levels' -- where `a man can find
such temperances of heaven and earth -- enough of struggle with nature
to draw out manhood, with enough of bounty to sanction the struggle --
that a more exquisite co-adaptation of all blessed circumstances
for man's life need not be sought.'"

140. See `Jason' in any Dictionary of Mythology.*

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* Gayley's `The Classic Myths in English Literature' (Boston, Ginn & Co.)
is an excellent book.
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157. `Dives': See Appendix to Webster's `International Dictionary'.

168. `Future Sale' -- sale for future delivery.

185-6. See Shakespeare's `King Lear'.




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