Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-08-29
LANCASTER. WISCONSIN,.
Eastern wisconsin.


body in the west should visi. the eastern part
OF the Territory-the duty ought 10 be as OBJ
lgatory 40 thai of the mussulman IN visiting
Mecca.
few miles eastward Of Madison, Dane
county has some recent settlers generally from
Ohio--soi sandy--one half sand. You can
see il glistening on the road like fakes Of snow.
Buckeyes help country though they kill cotcs
and though these Ohioans have just dropt
down here, you can see their ambition 10 the
magnitude Of the farms they have blocked out
already. Fifty acres of yellow, golden wheat
10 field where the ancient tenants Of the forest
still stand with withered leaves, shows The
march OF improvement. But such land would
not be first rate in Grant. The face Of the
country changes. You alternately pass over
tracts of rolling iimbered land, and then enter
plains of vast and sublime exient-natural
meadows, level as a floor. Various species of
swamp grass and flowers cover the nakedness
of these pampas. The road passing through
them is causewayed by saplins laid side by
side, like file Of used up Mexicans on the
chapporal OF Palo Alto. You nigh, as well
think Of raising corn on the slough Of Des-
pond" as on one Of these. The vast marsh
meadows are like the Ukraine; a solitude of
monoionous vegetation.
"And not an insects shrl, small horn,
No matn birds new voice was borne
From herb 10 thicket.o
Look at this country, and the facts Of the
past stand forth before the mind 10 clear and
definite outline. II we dare to reason at all
from effect to cause, these vas, plains ages ago.
were covered with water. Here fish spored
and devoured ear oher--here the swan
"rowed her ste with oary feel;" and ducks
fed on wiz .ce. nor dreamed Of such an ano.
malous biped as man--bul +" Illum fuil."-
Yonder 10 the distance are the highlands that I
said TO the proud waves, rye shall com, no
farther" Blu, though, of greater magnitude
dashes like lightning along the chain of pas,
events. Ages ago. and biologists say that our
continent, aoa,ed In The womb Of mother ocean
the embryo saw the sun only through film of
wa,er--i,s peaks and highlands were first visi
ble--,hen came convulsion, after commission.
and "new world" was born, and spread out
Its swaddlidg clothes to dry In the sun: As
soon as its limbs became terse and strong, Co
lumbus unveiled this last birth OF nature, the |
paradise Of later times.
But IL any thing 10 involved in ioex,ricaale |
confusion, il is the history Of those great
changes through which the substance Of the
globe has passed. and the deductions of the go.
ologis, are as unsatisfactory as those Of phren.
ology and mesmersm.
Sixteen miles eastward, and the ganglon OF
settlements, of which Madison is the nucleus,
Old Chaos maintains his ancient sway-tne
pampas enlarge--sluggsh streams are some
times seen. but their only perpose is 10 prove
what an engineers Lowell does--,hey Ito IN sfqfa
quo among grass and weeds like a lazy Turk
on his sofa. Ia tbs cheerless region there is
bu, one house--it is deser,ed--i,s yawning
doorway, windows and cellar alright the ,rav~
eller. Bn, 700; and alone, | now discovered
a hobgobln more friehtful still. twas white
above, and black and ghossly below, and pro-
ceeded out Of miserable mud howell, half sunk
in the earth; matched with sods IA chimney
rough and shaggy as porcupine when he
threatens fight, and so narrow iha. Il could not
emit the smoke without sneezing. Curiosity
impelled me. but feared, to approach. Man
or iend. whoever il nigh. be. drink Of water
will not be denied. BY signs made known
my reques, which she obligingly complied
wi,h-,he potion was miserable--fllered from
a marsh, for there are no springs here. TWAS
Norwegian woman. Na,uralisss would mo-,
class her with the inseciae, for her frame was
like cylinder, Of the same dimensions all the
way. gazed on her with mingled feelings
Did your ancestors chas,ise mine more than a
thousand years ago, when they descended like
Iocusls on old England's coas,l Now what
difference between The two races. Tsmpora
muiantur. But " scorn not the simple annals
of the poor" There were her children-kings
in this country, passing their minority under
her regency. Their descendants are to sway
these plains, and the population Jet to press
upon them.
In three hours, ] had stopped al three houses
one family came from ohio-a second from
ireland, and a third from Norway. Wiseon-
sin, how like St. Peters sheei-all manner Of
boasts. clean and unclean, upon it.
Is this the land Of which the great poet
sung
Egypt aud Tyre, Greek and jew,
Shall here begin their lives anew 90
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