Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . rish in the valleys onemay see the occasional glitter of a lake, halfhidden, like a coy maiden peeping from an em-bowered window. To the south, a long, straightline of yellow sand beach is visible, where thesurf flashes and thunders eternally. Then aboveand around all the unbroiRn circle of blue, uponwhose edge the dome of heaven fits as, accurate-ly as the cover of a soup-tureen, the magnificentpanorama of ocean, sights and sounds sublimelyimpressive to the landsman, and which, like thesnow-capped mountains to the Switzer, the wi
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . rish in the valleys onemay see the occasional glitter of a lake, halfhidden, like a coy maiden peeping from an em-bowered window. To the south, a long, straightline of yellow sand beach is visible, where thesurf flashes and thunders eternally. Then aboveand around all the unbroiRn circle of blue, uponwhose edge the dome of heaven fits as, accurate-ly as the cover of a soup-tureen, the magnificentpanorama of ocean, sights and sounds sublimelyimpressive to the landsman, and which, like thesnow-capped mountains to the Switzer, the wildprairie bloom to the Western Indian, the heath-er to the Scot—like all natural beauties and sub-limities—become essential to the life of thoseborn and nurtured within their influence. Marthas Vineyard is the largest of the groupof islands lying off the southern coast of Massa-chusetts, and, with the Elizabeth Islands, formsDukes County of that Commonwealth. Itslength from east to west is about twenty is ten miles wide at one point, although its. (i\Y HEAD. 448 HAEPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. mean breadth does not exceed five. On thenorth and west its surface is undulating, risingin ridges and hills to the height of two hundredfeet or more. Toward the south and east it isa plain, chiefly covered with a growth of stunt-ed shrubbery, and reminding one, in its generalfeatures, of the high levels of the is a fair proportion of woodland, thegrowth chiefly of post oaks, which seldom attaina greater height than twenty-five or thirty feet;and the only tree or 4lkub which seems to attainits full size under the influence of the salt windsis the lilac, which grows here in great beautyand profusion. The land produces good grass ;and under a proper system of cultivation thecrop of cereals is found profitable. Notwith-standing the eflbrts of several public-spiritedgentlemen, who have established an agriculturalsociety and cultivate model farms, the tillageof the
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