to a different charm over the scene now would the jovial sun break from the east blazing from the of the hills and sparkling the landscape with a thousand gems while along the borders of the river were masses of mist which hke midnight disturbed at hi approach made a retreat rolling in sullen reluctance up the mountains at such times all was brightness and life and � the seemed of an indescribable and � the birds broke forth in wanton and the breezes the vessel merrily on her course but when the sun sunk amid a flood of glory in the west the heavens and the earth with a thousand gorgeous � then all was calm and silent and magnificent the late swelling sail hung against the mast � the with folded arms leaned against ihe lost in that involuntary musing which tlie sober grandeur of nature commands in the of her children the vast bosom of tlie was like an mirror the golden splendour of the heavens excepting that now and then a bark would steal across its surface filled with painted savages gay br � jl tu as perchance a twilight scene a lingering ray of the setting sun gleamed upon them from the western mountains but when the hour of twilight spread its magic mists around then did the face of nature assume a thousand fugitive charms which to the worthy heart that seeks enjoyment in the glorious works of its maker arc the mellow light that prevailed just served to tinge with colours the softened features of the scenery the deceived but delighted eye sought vainly to discern in the broad masses of shade the separating line between the land and water or to distinguish the fading objects that seemed sinking into chaos now did the busy fancy supply the of vision producing with industrious craft a fairy creation of her own under her the barren rocks frowned upon the watery waste in the semblance of lofty towers and high castles � trees assumed the forms of mighty giants and the inaccessible of the mountains seemed peopled with a thousand beings now broke forth from the shores the notes of an innumerable variety of insects which filled the ai with a strange but not concert � while ever and anon was heard the melancholy of the whip poor will who perched on some lone tree wearied the ear of ai t oh ii awful with his incessant the mind soothed into a melancholy listened with pensive stillness to catch and distinguish each sound that vaguely echoed from the shore � now and then startled perchance by the of some straggling savage or the dreary howl of a wolf stealing forth upon his nightly thus happily did they pursue their course until they entered upon those awful the it would seem that the gigantic had their war with heaven up cliffs on cliffs and vast masses of rock in wild confusion but in very different is the history of these cloud mountains � these in ancient days before the poured his waters from the lakes formed one vast prison within whose rocky bosom the confined tlie spirits who at his here bound in chains or in pines or by ponderous rocks they groaned for many an age � at length the conquering in his irresistible career towards the ocean burst open their prison house rolling his tide triumphantly its ruins still ho ver do many of them about their old and these it is according to venerable legends that cause tlie echoes which punishment op throughout these awful which are nothing but their angry when any noise the of their repose for when the elements are agitated by tempest when the winds are up and the thunder rolls then horrible is the yelling and howling of these troubled spirits making the mountains to with their hideous uproar for at such times it is said that they think the great is returning once more to plunge them in gloomy and renew their intolerable but all these fair and glorious scenes were lost upon the gallant naught occupied his mind but thoughts of iron war and proud of hardy deeds of arms neither did his honest crew trouble their vacant heads with any romantic speculations of the kind the pilot at the quietly smoked his pipe thinking of nothing either past present or to come � those of his comrades who were not under the were listening with open mouths to van who seated on the was relating to them the marvellous history of those of fire flies that sparkled like and upon the dusky robe of night these according to tradition were originally a race of who peopled � van a long before the memory of man being of that race emphatically called and who for their innumerable sins against the children of men and to furnish an awful warning to the sex were doomed to the earth in the shape of these threatening and terrible little enduring the internal of that fire which they formerly carried in their hearts and breathed forth in their words but now are to bear about for in their tails and now am i going to tell a fact which i doubt much my readers will hesitate to believe but if they do they are welcome not t believe a word in this whole history for nothing which it contains is more true it must be known then that the nose of the was of a very size boldly from his countenance like a mountain of being with and other precious stones � the true of a king of good fellows which jolly to all who it heartily at the now thus it happened that bright and early in the morning the good having washed his was leaning over the quarter railing of the contemplating it in the wave below � just at this moment the illustrious sun breaking in all 