[2]The art of irrigation, once practiced on such a mighty scale, now
seems practically a lost art but just now being revived on our western
plains.

[3]"And, that which all faire workes doth most aggrace, The art, which
all that wrought, appeared in no place."

--Faerie Queene, B. 2, Canto 12.

[4]See Miss Gordon Cumming's descriptions of the fields of wild dahlias
in Northern India.

[5]By far the finest display of the mettle and blood of high-bred
horses I have ever seen has been in the pasture-field, and this
description is drawn from life.

[6]Once, coming upon a little prairie in the midst of a great forest, I
saw a herd of startled deer bound over the grass, a scene never to be
forgotten.

[7]See Miss Gordon Cumming's description of a hill covered with this
luminous grass.

[8]There can be no doubt that the fire-worship of the East is the
remains of a true but largely emblematic religion.

[9]The difference between the Buddhist idea of a deva and the Christian
idea of an attendant angel is scarcely perceptible.