New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-18


aud the lskes and streams. the ilrest g unnter-
r1ptcd II Is even more grlm an1 Wild than yoa
bad anticir sfed. damp aud intricate wilderness.
20 the Sprln. everywhere wet and m.ry. The IS
pect Of the county indeed S universally stern and
savage. excepting the distant news VI the forest
from hills and the AXE prospects. which are mid
and cIvihzins IN 4 degree. The axes are some
thing which you are unprspared for they lie up
= high exposed . the light and the iorest IS d.
minisled % a fine fringe on their edges with
here and there blue mountain, Ike amethyst
ewels st around some Jewel 0f the nrst water
anterior. 50 superior - al the changes that are
o. take place on their shores even now civil and
refined and fair. SIS they can ever be. These are
not the srtIhcia. forests Of an English Nlng-s
royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest
avs but those OF Nature The abougines have
never been "a spossessed nor Nature dsioresteS
Itiss country full Of evergreen trees. OF messy
silver hirches and waterv naples, the ground
dotted " "a insipid. small red berries and strewn
with damp and moss grown rocks-s country diver
shed with inuumerabie axes and rapid streams,
peopied with trort ard various species Of leEci,ci
with salmon, shad and pickerel, and other fishes
the forests resounding at rare intervals with the
note of the chicaice. the blue-isy and the wood
pccker the scream of the hsh-hawk and the eagle,
the laugh Of the loon, and the whistle OF ducks
along the solitary streams and AZ night, with the
hootus Of owls and bowling OF wolves and IN
musketos. more formidable than wolves 70 the
white man. such s the home OF the moose. the
bear the caribou. the wolf the beaver. and the
Indian. Who shall describe the inexpressibe ten
deruess and immortal life OF the grim forest where
Nature, though i be mid winter. IS ever IN her
Spring, where the moss grown and decaying trees
are not old but seem o. enjoy perpetual youth
and biissul, innocent Nature, Ike serene infant
$ too happy to make a nose, except by few
tinkllng, lispng birds and trucking nils
] am reminded By my Journey how exceedingly
new this country still y. You have only % travel
for a few days into the interior and back parts
en- oil many Of the old States 20 come - that very
America which the Mortimer and Cabot and
Gosuod and Smith and Raleigh visited. II CO.
lumbus was the first 70 discover the islands, Amer
icls Nespucus and Cabot and the Purtsns and
We their defendants. have discovered only the
shores Of America. While e Republic has al
ready acquired history worldwide, America Is
still unsettled and unexpored. Like the English
IN New Holland. we live only on the shores Of
continent even vet and hardly know where the
rivers come from which float our navy The very
timber and boards. aud shingles OF which our
houses are made grew but yesterday IA wilder
ness where the Indian still hunts and the moose
runs Wild Ncw-York has her wilderness within
her own borders and though the sailors OF Europe
are familiar with the soundngs OF her Hudson
and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on
scientific men 20 It's head quarters IN tn, Adlrondac
country.
Have We even 81 much as discovered and set
tied the shore Let n man travel on foot along
the coast. from the Passamaquoddy % the Sabine.
or 20 the Rio Bravo or 10 wherever the end . now
Il heis swift enough 10 oyertake it, faithfully iol-
lowing the winnings OF every inlet aud OF every
cape aud stepping 20 the music of the sud-with
a desoiate fishing town once week, and city
port once a month % cheer him, aud putting up at
the light houses when there arc any and tel me
II It looks like discovered and settled country,
and not rather. for the most part like dc.olate
island, snd No-man's Land.
We have advanced by leaps g. the Pacific and
left many lesser Oregon and California unex
plored behind us Though the railroad and the
telegraph have been established on the shores on
Maine the Indian still looks out from her interior
mountains over all these 10 the sea. There stands
the City OF Bangor fifty miles up the Penobscot' at
the head OF navigation tor vessels OF the largest
class the principal lumber depoton this continent
with population Of twelve thousand, like a star
on the edge of night still hewIng at the forests OF
which II IS built already overiowIng with the
Injuries and refinement Of Europe, aud sending It's
vessels TO Spain, 10 England and to the West In
dies for It's groceries-and yet only a few aN-men
have gone up river into the bowling wilderness
which feeds IT, The bear and deer are stu found
within its limits and the moose. as he swIms the
Penobscot. il entangled amid its shipping and
taken by foreign sailors in It's hsrbor. Twelve
miles 10 the rear twelve miles Of railroad, are
Orono and the Indian Island the home OF the Pc
nobscot tribe, and thence commence the batteau
and the canoe and the military road and, sixty
miles above the country is virtually unmapped
and plored and there still waves the virgin
forest Of the New World.