The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1849-03-24
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! Standing on llis lono, lofty pinnacle, II Is
Impossible not 10 figure To ourselves tho iaI-
portaui Biblical events connected with it,
Edoui stood secure, though tremhling, IN her
mountain ihs'uUss; tie Promised Land was
yet occupied hy It's original Inhabitants, link
cd 10y h-comnon. danger TO resist the invn-
-iuu oflhe wanderers FROM Egypt aud to
! drive ihcu back into tie inhospitnble desert;
the lsrHrlics had assembled NJ kudnsh, and,
with ihcir courage quhiled 10y the difcour-
/ ngciug reports of the spios, had been doom
cd iu cNpiltc their wnut OF fHlIh and TO VIVA
der forty years through the Wilderness
/ These forty ychrs bad now done their work
that generation hnd pissed. awny--pDd
I their descendants, children Of The desert, as
scuihl, Il at the base Of the mount, aud fll lio
broad plain with their tents; their pasungB'
thr5igh these mountain dcGlyS = refused by
tic Elomies, aud ngan wG sec Ihcn, ~ iaioiu
departing souihWard, down the Arnbnh To
the Red sen, To turn the region HAT they
might not penetrate.
But short time beforc, tho great law givor
had buried at kAdesh, his sister Miriam,
whose triunplintfssnI.s ibid commemorate b.
lIIelr-Grzi della GRANGE. aud nnn, Aaron, loo,
was callg,l To his rcst--thc prophet brothers
ASCEND ilIG lonely mount, niiL on lis summit
lake the hong aud last farewell. Aaron il
buried, and the nged Moses dcsccnds alone,
and dcsolnto Ia heart, To- The tents al tho
mourning lsraclilcs So strongly marked
nre the features ofihs region and so preserv-
ell Wy their sublime, uuchahging bnrranness,
that when we behold at once the deliles OF
Edom, the frontier hills or Palestine, the kr-
nhul, aud, far on, stretched to the westward.
the great sepuchural Wilderness the lapse uf
ngcs is forgotten, aud these touching and SOL
omn events rise mp before the pliud with nlf
almost startling reality.
From solitary group of ionbz, rI,e out
skuts offs vHst metropolis, uhiniurd my
first view of the rock hound civ A broken-'
down camel, one Off passing rurnvun, psO-
testing against mn iusurportHhlu load, Which,
nj the expense Of his last remaining strengIh,.
he had dragged up the long ascent, was
characteristic object ia the foreground. This
narrow pass WIZ profanity Guarded IL, Tire,
palmy days of Petra, and blocked up whcH
an attack WAS expected. Hence begins
long descent by the eide OF n rnyinc, leading
tn tire vacant sNho of tie old city, OF whiciR
one solitary column MI cars Ike the ghost of
lis past splendor graded round hy rnrks oi,
the nrst rugged aud fantastic ooiluer unL
pierced its innumenble excavations, their
colOrinG. as 1t were, run mad with u blcud-
ing oi'nll hucs.
No idea can he given ofthe FIRST impression
of such plncc,fns slrnneeleSs and remote
ncss--tllo utter dessnnrion--thc silence,
broken only by lhc-,lccp croans 0f the frs
trrFvCri; urrrrrttrt,et atttteI ''ttA I44e- fierce
yclls of their savage conductors. My plnu
had perfectly succeeded, the shek and hiS
retaHers hadnotRprcnred; tlscre wns nothing
10 mar the glorious satisfaction Of wandering
nlone aud uninterrupted about this unparnf-
lrlsd place. my old cicerouc, MS | merely
named the principal objects of interest, con-
Quoted mo To them III silence, aud | spcns
some hours in exploding tho lower part OF.
The upper pnrI of The eprrooctl atouEiho
course ofIhe sireHrn, which ! dill not see, is
Murdered 10y ton,hs, some of very singular