When I gained the i minence, I found that the view was calculated to heighten and expand all the feelings with which my heart was surcharged to the ovetflow. A few gorgeous clouds, bedight in crimson and purple, were sailing in glory along the melancholy west; dark cypresses, hung to Iheir tops with trailing clusters of wild vine, coloured with mingled violet, amber and emeia'd, stood in relief before the horizon; while afar, on either hand, the great Mis-issippi was seen rolling along with a kind of quivering radiance, and exhibiting even at that distance, the turbulent might, which mxkes it seem like a prostrate Niagara. At a dis tance, in each extremity of the view, it was lost in dark woods and misty headl nds; an emblem, most striking at the moment,'f that obscurity which, like the shadow-curtain in the vision of Mirza, overhung the stream of life and lime, making cf the future a vast unknown.
