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 398 hardly fail to be one of rich luxuriance. The site is flat and prairie-like, and I should prefer, for in my part, to locate my earthly Paradise nearer the hills. Still, the taste of the time runs to earthly Paradises which are at the same time shrewd commercial ventures, and the cultivation of the plain is much easier than that of the slopes.