Word: surroundings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shade is not grateful, but rather to such a degree baneful, that, oppressed by the perennial gloom the grass grows but sparsely beneath its branches, and the damp, bare ground seems doomed to a lasting blight. Standing with its humble stature among the high-topped, overarching elms that surround it, this poor beech looks doubly stunted and deformed. To the occupants of Grays it is a constant eye-sore, as it seriously obstructs their view. To those rooming in Weld and Matthews it is a blot on the beauty of the landscape. It is the one defect in the general...