American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-11-22
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friendship Tor him during his residence among thsm
AS most of his way lay through an unsettled coun.
try, he had prov!dently provided himself with prop
er arms Tor security against any interruption frons
those bandi'ti or hghwaymen, whose predatory
depredations bad become so frequent a. to render
passage across the mountains lying along he north
western parts of Vermont and through Canada, ex-
trcmely dangerous. This he after wards found to
be salutary precaution, for in more than one in
stance had he occasion to use them; and he was
once well nigh losing his lie, when a fortunate
blow with his scmetar severed the bride which
person had seized who rushed from the wood and
at the same moment presented pistol at his breast
Escaping however, all these calamilies, how did
his heart bound within him as the mountains one
alter another, upon the view and successfully
receded until journey of fourteen days brought
him within a few miles OF his native vaeyp Often
had he sat in solitude, many hundred miles distant.
surrounded with dangers. and thought upon his pa
rents and his sister, and the unmlngled pleasure
which should attend their happy meeting. He had
Quilted them when young, and before any of the ills
OF lie and calames OF The world had pressed upon
his soul ;-he had forcgone the invaluable blessings
nf society and home; he had often braved surround
ing danger and escaped imminent peril; he had
successfully struggled with The vcissiiudes OF for
tune and triumphantly encountered the opposition Of
powerful and influential rivals; and all these sacri
fees and pryaiions he lad endured during eight
long and dreary years, from his unbounded affection
for those to whose comfort and welfare he subjected
every other earthly consideration And il was this
consider the thought and consciousness that all
his rxertons to bestow blessings and happiness
upon others, which sweetened every toll and mitiga.
ted the severity of hardships. which at times would
seem almost insurmnuntsbe and SET his exeitions
and resolutions al defiance. And as he was now
upon the very point Of enjoying the rich reward Of
all his abors and tolls it seemed impossible that any
earthly obstacle could intervene to prevent the full
frultion of his sweetest hopes
Zemira had now attained her nineteenth year,
and few females could be said TO possess so great a
degree of personal charms and intellectual erdow
menls as Miss Moreland She was Of the middle
siature neither sic der nor Of full habit but her
TO- m was that of perfect symmetry approac hing
manhood which charmed and attracted The admra~
ton of every behoder. The sparkling lustrr Of
her full yet half smiling black eye, shaded by long
dark lashes--the decacy Of pencied brow, height
ened by the indispensable beauty of her clear and
snow white forehead, and the rosy glow of health
upon cheek which was dimpled by the swe etest
smile, depicted countenance lovely and interesting
beyond description: and the curling rnelets of her
beautiful dark hair derived additional char they
gracefully flowed in unadorned tresses her neck
and shoulders