Excerpt from A Year in the Fields: Selections From the Writings of John Burroughs; With Illustrations From Photographs IN the town of Roxbury, among the western Catskills, was born April 3, 1837, John Burroughs. The house in which he first saw the light was an unpainted, squar ish structure, only a single story high, with a big chimney in the middle. This house was removed a few years later, and a bet ter and somewhat larger one, which still stands, was built in its place. The situa tion is very pleasing. Roundabout is a varied country of heights, dales, woods and pastures, and cultivated fields. The dwell ing is in a Wide upland hollow that falls away to the east and south into a deep valley, beyond which rise line on line of great mounding hills. These turn blue in the distance and look like immense billows rolling in from a distant ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.