A Series of Reasons.

The quotation which follows belongs to the first type and develops the leading thought by means of a series of reasons why the fact stated is true :
There are several obvious reasons why the English should be better or more habitual walkers than we are, Taken the year round, their climate is much more favor¬able to exercise in the open air. Their roads are better, harder, and smoother, and there is a place for the man and a place for the horse. There country houses and churches and villages are not strung upon the highway as they are with us, but are nestled here and there with reference to other things than convenience in "getting out." Hence the grassy lanes and paths through the fields. Distances are not so great in that country; the population occupies less space. Again, the land has been longer occupied, and is more thoroughly subdued ; it is easier to get about the fields ; life has flowed in the same channels for centuries.
- JOHN BURROUGHS, Pefiacton