A WORLD OF GREEN
HILLS

OBSERVATIONS OF NATURE
AND HUMAN NATURE
IN THE BLUE
RIDGE

BY
BRADFORD TORREY

He joyes in groves, and makes himselfe full blythe

With sundrie flowers, in wilde fieldes gatherèd.

Spenser.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1898

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY BRADFORD TORREY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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