Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-11-16
NORTH AMERICAN FOREST.

from an extract from Nesle's "Bro,her Jonas
than" published in an English work entitled
WRe;ec,e6 Articles" The London writer, per-
hans no, knowing Neale to be an American,
nronounces him 10 be the most original writer
ofhis tlay, and the most extraordinary gifted,
as far as mere natural faculties 60
"The autumnai beauty Of North American
forest cannot be exaggerated. IL is like noih-
;no Else on earth. Many time have we gone
through IL; slowly fitting over pretty blue
Lake. there, among the hills, our birch canoe
dipping with every molten Of the paGdle-lhe
waters beneath us-ail the mountain about--all
unknown TO the world; IN solitude "a quiet
profeund as death and bright as heaven; the
SHORES ovrrhung with aaiumnal foliage, and a
sky so wonderlul--so visionary-thai all the
clouds, and all the mountains were oil piece,
In he clear water; and our boat was like ball
lonn
"Say VIVA, you will, there is nothing 10 oe
eomparsd with scene of this kind, about an
hour before sunset, in the depth Of great North
American solitude, vast amphltheatre oil
wilderness, rock ana mountain, alter the trees
are changed by the frost. People may talk oil
their fine Italian skies; OF their hot, bright
Eas Indian skies; OF the deep midnight blue of
the South American skies. We have seen them
all; slept under them all, slept under sky, like
one prea, moon; worshipped them all; seen
them through all the changes Of storm & sun
shire. darkness and light; and we say, that In
reality, they are dim, heavy, unclouded, unin>
terss,ins compared with your North American
skies. little before and after sunset.
~ Ans. so 900, of the garnture oil North A
rnericar, wilderness, sher two or three clear.
efgosty ights--There is nothing TO. compare
with il under heaven. The mountains, yaliies,
woods, all burst into flowers; all at once. Other
countries are IN a better slate OF cultivation
Their trees are less numerous; their Wild shrub.
berry, less like vegetable inundation over the
land CO, ering every foot cfthe earth; or the
changes oftheir color, from season TO season,
are slow and gradual.
at is not so, in America, North America
There the transformation is universal; instan-
tareou.. A single nigh, viii do II. In the e.
ven,ng Of a fine day perhaps, all The great woods
will be green; with hardly red or brown, or
yellow ieaf a sharp frost will set in, at
night. Before the sun rises again, the bound
less verdure Of the whole province; whole
en-, pire, liz truth, win be changed. In the morn
ing, there will be hardly q green leaf to be
fesnd. Before the week is over, go where you
NAV, through the superb wilderness, yoa will
rneel with nothing bu, gay, brilliant scarlet
purple orangr with every possible variety ct
brown, light blue, vivid crimson or blood CO.
lor OF all the trees, none but the evergreen
tribe, will keep their integrity. They will
show along the battlsments OF the moundin-
darker Than ever; more cloudy than ever, like
so many architectural ruins, or surviving ,ur-
rets- in the splehdor Of the surrounding land
scare.
'!No, no; i, is not saying too much Of all this
beauty OF all this great magui6cence. when the
fresh, cold, brisk who'd of the season gets among
tie branches; after such night; and blows up
the superhuous lea6ng, 10 the warm sunshine;
like tempest, among prodigious howers-
tearing and scattering The tulip colored foliage
over all the earth; and over all the waters; no,
il is not saying too much-merely TO say-thaI
under Heayen--,hroughout all the vegetable
creation there is no spectacle OF beauty or show
Of richness, or grandeur Ito be compared with,
i,.-Inagine--we do not mind appearing
little absurd, il, thereby, we may give the
stranger, a true idea OF This appearance, ina
pine therefore, a great, wilderness Of peoples,
or tulips-outs preading itself on every side:
reaching quite away TO the horizon; over hill,
and over yallev-or wood; literally encum-
bert d; heavy with great, gorgeous, live butter
hies--iorever IN motion.
1--WE have been traveller; we have looked
upon the dark Norwegian woods, their dull ev-
ergreens--,cwering up tnfo the sky, covering
whole provinces; woods, TOO, Of stupendous oak
each tree, &c the soil were divided, overshad-
owing a mans inheritance, hourishingsbrave
through whole territories; more than one quiz
ct, solitary place, entirely shut up in by the
hills; lowering all over; all the year round
But we have never met with-never heard OF
never looked upon, elsewhere, that profusion
of glorious vegetable beauty, which is to BE-
seen, every fall in the woods OF North Amer
lea; hespeI up, on all the banks of all the riv-
ers-up--to the very skies-on the grea'
or accumulated over the low coun>
tries-and weliering there, all the day through |
in the light, or shadow--or wind, or sunshine, !
of the season"
TMMoRrAIrrY-Bautru, in presenting poet 10
NJ. d'Henry, addressed him, "Sir, lpresent to
you person who will give you Immortality;
but you must give him something to live upon
n the meantime" -