Read the excerpt from Susan Fenimore Cooper's essay "August." The whole country, within a wide circuit north, south, east and west, partakes of the same general character; mountain ridges, half tilled, half wood, screening cultivated valleys, sprinkled with farms and hamlets, among which some pretty stream generally winds its way.

Which of these types of figurative language contributes to the description in this sentence?

simile
personification
metaphor
hyperbole