text:  How silent _that_ would be at the noon of summer nights how grave-like in its quiet! And yet need there be asked a stillness or a silence more profound than is felt at this present noon of day? One reason for such peculiar repose over and above the tranquil character of the day and the distance of the place from high-roads is the outer zone of woods which almost on every quarter invests the shrubberies--swathing them (as one may express it ) belting them and overlooking them from a varying distance of two and three furlongs so as oftentimes to keep the winds at a distance