Machine derived contents note: 1 THE UNSPOILED LAND 1 -- Ti GOAAS Mo ON" iThe General Survey of the Country -- JOHN BAKErESS I D Soto Tours the New World 4 -- SThe Wild Middle West 7 -- SFathers of Waters 11 -- WILLIM a B RRAM A Trip on the St. John River in lorida 19 -- JOHN ArDUnON The Ohio 24 -- SHospititty in the Woods 29 -- FrrNCIS PARKMAN Breaking the Ice 35 -- Jumping Off 40 -- JOHN MUIm The Passes 44 -- 2 YEARS OF SPACIOUS LIVING 49 -- JOHN AUDUBON Great Egg Harbor 50 -- NATHANEL HAWTHORNE The Profits of Idleness 53 -- HENRY DAVID IHOREAU Sounds 57 -- HENRY ADAMS Quincy 70 -- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS L My First Visit to New England 72 -- MARK TPWAI N Prairie Farm 73 -- HEMLIN GARLAND A Judicial Wedding 78 -- THEODORE DREISER The Frontier of Indiana 84 -- HENRY SEIDEL CANBY Growing up Along the Brandywine 89 -- RUssr LL IH FARNSWORTH Summer on the Old Farm 94 -- Mill and Village 99 -- RUTr CROSBY Miss Locke's 104 -- WX'ILLIA M. CLARK Cedar River, Maine 109 -- CHIARLES W. MORTON Solo in Wyoming 123 -- 3 GOING BACK TO THE SOIL 139 -- DAVID GRAYON " uly 140 -- ELLIOTT MERRIC The Pleasures of Lake Champlain 143 -- SAiLMo , OGDEN The Most Diffcult Step 153 -- " ,V P -iT R (:ii ir;s [ Farthest Field to the North 157 -- HAi BOR,-AND A Time o for Summ ar1 60 -- 4I IH PRICE O P ROGRESS 169 -- EDmIs WAY X Lr 1 Thew Poisoned Hi!s 140 -- E. B. V'mIE Fro-Toy 177 -- ` I ' /ai t cs 180 -- ' walli 1 S0 -- Roranrer Bt Nc Earthly Paradise, E1 Centro, California 16 -- M,,an R & oS \ij MHLNE The Greatest [Treat to -- Life on Farth 194 -- B rRy Co arONra To Survive on Earth 203 -- RACHir CARSvON A Fable for Tomorrow 219 -- S LOOKING FOR A SILV R LINING 221 -- JOSrEPH WOOD KUETCH i The Twentieth Century: Dawn or -- Twilight? 222 -- HAvRSON BROWN Patterns of the Future 231 -- SIrEiina D Ci I ON The Human Implications 240 -- Fpi oge 42.