Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-11-16


been The fashion Of travellers 10 talk
IN tho scenery Of The Mississippi, NJ want
ie, grandeur and iuly Most certainly
has neither Bot there Il no country /
~ earth moro striking, Tho dreary and pe
q lilcnIia' soltudes, unlrodden snvo by If
or foot Of The Indian Tho absence Of Nil II,
"a ing objects, save the huge alligator
- which float past appare nlly asleep and n
occasional vulture, attracted by itsimput
D. prey on the surface Of the writer's; in
trees, with long and hideous drapery q
: pendent moss, flutering in The wind; nm
: The giant river, rolling Onward tho vas
volume of its dark and turbid water
through the wilderness form the fen
lures OF one of the most dismal nd i'm
pressIve landscapes on which the eve o
man ever rested If any one thinks
proper TO believe that such objects are moi
IN themselves sufficient, beg to say that
i differ with him in point OF taste -
Rocks and mountains are fine things un-
doubleday, but they could add nothing or
subllmny TO the Mississippi Peion might
be piled on Ossa, A ps on Andes, and still
10 tho heart and perceptions OF the spec
'a'or, the Mississippi would be alone. hi
can brook no rival, and it finds none
NO river in the world drains so large a
portion of the earh's surface. 1t is The
traveller Of The earth five thousand miles
--more than two thirds the diameter OIL
the Globe. The imagination asks
hence come its waters, and whittier
tend they? They come from the ois-
tant regions of vast continent wher4
me foofot civilized man has never We,
been planted. They flow into an ocean
yer Vasler, the whole body of which ar
Nne"ledges their influence. --Tbrouob
"hat varIetles'of climate have thev nas-
sea! On what scenes. of lonely and nh n
line magnifcence have they gazed9 +
lave they penetrated n
The &c, hoary forests, still the bson's screen Il
!, "here stalked the mammoth to his sbaoe lair i
C @rear pains ana alleys rooted with S,ny : d
thousands .'!. of years before the SILENT rar /
as pierced by whzzng shafts o. hunters koor2 W
= snort, when the traveller has asked We
% answered these questions, and thou. II
'nu olherss, 1t will be time enough 10 con. W
uer now FAR the scenery of the Missis ri
PP' would be improved by rocks and RI
ouhtains he may then be lei TO l8
'uot whether any great effect can he wa
.ouuceo by combination of objects ola DO
Scoroant character, however grand in 10
The imaginalion.is perh,ns wa
sceF'lo'e but of single powerful i'm It's
essIon alta time. Subimty is uniform. I8
connected with unity of object. Beau. wa
may be produced by The happy adao. l57
n OF multitude of harmonious de. ter
IS; but the highest sublmity OF effect Col
proceed but from one paramount and Col
fious object, which impresses its own
'facter on everything around. The bro,
,VallIng character of the Missssippi dan
nat OF a solemn gloom. have trod chiI
me passes of Alp and Appenine. vel SON
: 'elt now awful a thing is Mare, Their
! was borne on It's waters tn. otigb her
IONS desolate and unnhabited. Day am,
y Day and night alter night, we con pLo
led driving right downward 10 tie and
n; our vessel like some huge demon dano
ne wilderness, bearing fire in her bo, wifn
} ana cahoPylng The eternal forest dauo
lhe smoke of her nostrils. How band1
Cd the hoary river god, know moi
what thought the aIigators, when BA
Kened from their slumbers by a Wis dent
70 asto undlng. But the effect on nv merct
Is was such as have never experen- Jersc
'e.ufe or Since. Conversation be- skelcI
! odious' and passed my time ia a al
y dreamy contemplation. At night The
ended to the highest deck, and Law Bridg
9ufs gazing llstIessly on the skv,lhe Der 0
ana me waters, amid silence onIy either
n by The changing of the engine ton.
us was very pleasant, yet, till Tha1 captur
ed New Orleans, could scarcely Der, /
smiled al the best Joke in the world. he b
Tor raising alaugh, it would have 1000
4u''e as easy 10 quadrate the circle cans.
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