New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-28
THE TRIBUNE.
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"A GALLop AMONG AMERICAN SCENERY: Or, Sketches Of
American Scenes ana Military Adventure; BY AuGUs
rus T. SrIL,MAN. (pp. se7, 1smo.j D. D.Appletop& Co.
This is capital ook-fracy and spirited it
may we'll ba called but it is more than these terms
wsuld express: it is the work of one who OBJ
serves with an eagle eye and rich capacity to
enjoy and delineate the beauty and submity of
Nature Some Of his Sketches have been pub
lished in the American and other papers-,he
Battle of Lundy' Lane Night Attack on For,
Erie,' &c. The stories Of Naval conflicts related
by odd Kennedy, the Qaaltermaster, are thrilling.
But we must close our comment, and make
room for view of
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
The scene Of desoaton is passed and now,
lest the Lord Of FIRE should reign uncontrolled, o
where the spirit Of the whirlwind has swept in his
wild tornado Lo! far as your vision can COM
mand the circle--where, rushing from the noun
tain gorges his chariots have whrled along in their
fierce career of destruction. In mid hight, the
lofty trees are snapped like pipe-stems, uad prone
like the field of grain laid BY the hand ef the reaper,
huge trunks with the moss Of centuries-not here
and there one solitary-but for miles, the whole
vast forest-prostrate, never again to rise.
But speed! speed the mountain passes are
before u.s. See-see their huge walls tower in
chaotic wilaness above US. Rocks on locks-ledse
( en- ledge-cliff' on cliff-plunged upon each other
in frantic disorder Sec
asee the giant-snou,ed crags, ho' hs! =
How they snort now they blow!"
See the huge rock ramparts shooting their wild
peaks and jagged pinnacles upwards, piercing the
very sky above Us their frowuing and gashed sides
trickng and discoored with the corroding min
! erals in their bowels the stunned pines and ever
;l,.l b,,b, .irt tbair av;c
Take heed! beware you fall not. See the huge
8 sBdes-they have swept whole torrents of rocks,
of earth, in promiscuous destruction, from their
SUBMITS, upon the valley beow-the rivers filed
and turned from their courses, in their path--the
very forest itsclf-the loftiest trees up their
branches their trunks, their upturned roots ground
and intermixed with rock and earth, and splintered
( timber, swept on in wild ,nexlricable confusion
and here where starting from their slumbers, the
devoted family rushed naked and horror-stricken to
meet i, in mid career. Ay! hold on blythe sides
Of the steep preeipice-cling to the ledge as the
wild wind rushes by in furious gust--a slip were
your passport TO eternity. Look down! How aw-
full the precipice, thousands of feet below you
how the blood curdles and rushes back upon the
heart, as you imagine the fatal plunge. Wellmght
the Puritans of old deem these CHASTITY deserts the
abede aad haunts Of the evil one.
But. on-on-how toilsoU,e the ascent.-Ihat
was fearful blast; hold tightly the wild roots in
I. thy grasp as it passes. Long since have we passed
the region of vegetation: the dry and arid moss
: clingipg 10 rock and stone, alone around us. Ay
sf, ,szl-c:' -. snring-but heware its cycoldness-
nor winter, nor summer, alters Its temperature.
Behold, in the cefts and gorges below, the never
melting snow-wreaths. The flaming suns OF sum-
mer pass over, and leave them undininished.-
Courage! we climb, we climb. The witches of the
l,d ch crTa fnr
Courage, my friend We ascend-we ascend
we reach the top-now Observation-Disclosures ex-
harsled we throw ourselves upon the extreme suNl-
nit.
Gather your faculties--press hard your throbblng
heart Catch view Of the scene of grandeur
around you, before the wild clouds, like dense vol
unie, Of stean enclose Us in their embrace, shut
ting it from our vision mountains mountains
rolling of as fur eye can reach IN untrlng VAST
ness-a huge sea of mountains held motionleSs IN
mis-! career. How sublime! how grand! what
awful solitude what chilling, stern, laeXorable
silence! It seens as if an expectant world were
awaiting in palpjtating stiffness the visible advent
Of the Alm;siiy-mcuntain and valley in expect
ant ave. Oh! mar-strutting in thy little sphere,
,hiukcs, thou that alteration is coafined alone to
Thy cushioned seats--;hy asles OF marble; thattor
devotion, the Almighty looks to nought but thee
Why, look thou there -beneath-around-mi
-.niliions-rnillions of acres teeHing with
ife yet hushed in silence to the ear--each gram
the n;eser and composite of world--the mlnu-
test portion, study-a wonder in itself-ie before
thee in awful alteration of their Almighty Founder
We'll did the Seers of old go into the mountains
to worship. Oh! my brother-Inan--thou that dost
toll, snd groan and aDor, in continual conct with
what appears to thee unrelenting tnte-thou to
whom the brow-sweat appears to bring nousnt Dut
the bitter bread, and coatumeiy, and shame thou
on whom the Sysiphean rock OF misfortune see ms
rcmorselesslvto TO recoil-ascend thou hither. aere,
o. this mounsain-peak. nor King nor hmPeIor IS
thy superior Here, thou art a man. STAND tnou
here and while with thy faculties thou canst com
1nanG, in instant comprehension, the scene sublime
before thee, elevate thee in thy setrespect, and
camiy. bravciy throw thyself into the ai-snelter-
ing arms Of Him, who watches with hke oenevo-
lencc an ., otec,op, the young bird In Its grassy
Nest, ana ,he majestic spheres, chimsg eternal
music in their circtng courses!
TsE Lsn,s wosyp OF r AspoY AND LlTEeAr.RE Edited
py Iin AsN SrErnEss- April, 1855 VOL Q, NO.
Israel Pos: Ss BoweFy.
This monthly has been greatly improved espe-
ciayi Ks literary character since 1t passed INTO
the control of its present Editrcss. II Is very
neatly printed, finely and profusey ILLUSTRATED ana
we'll filed with CHOICE magazine articles I ne
lpadng--and by far the best-psperia the present
number is by Mrs. STEPHENS upon /" Literary La
dies iii presents many truthful and eoquenuy
expressed considerations coueerning their position
inSsciety and in Letters. Besides this there are.
some twenty original articles in the number tales.
Poems, &c.