New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-01
MADEIRA, AND A VOYAGE rHrrHER
er.rOndelee Of The y. Y. Tribune.
MADEIRA Frdav Ian

cor.stoldesee Of The n. Y. Tribune
MADEIRA, FndAy, Jan. 7, Ias]
II said that one should never 90 With pleasure pre-;
rense in search of the picturesque that they alone are
tortunste who cone upon the beauties Of nature unex
pectedly like the toohappy mortal who, unaware en-.
couutered the Goddess Of the Silver Bow in all the lux
urisnce Of her unobstructed charms.
| doubt The happiness may come double that comes
upapticirated; but is anticipation Itself nothing l.
imaepsfion nothing and the quickened pulse of hope
Is that nothing Indeed what is all Of life but nces
gart hope and Hell itself but hopeless eternity
But LET US leave the question TO uetaphyscians who
will never determine it while / describe, well as
can what | have done and seen and felt Of ate with
Nature.
lam On nv return from ST. Aune's, the extreme
North Of this Island eighteen miles distant By the road
Int as the crow hies perhaps not more than ten or
twelve the balance being lost Ia the inequalities
Of The earth surface
II il something in the dead waist and middle of the
"yinter to make journey chsra over hills thousands
e feet above the level of the would
Thing 10 those who have quit the cold regions Of
tie moral North. Old or Neg-England-Over rushing
,treams insecurity brdged precipces Of fearful depth
and roads where false might be fatal step.
But the danger, alas is mostly in the Imagination
Save drenehng by sudden storms fall and perhaps dis
location Of the ankle wrist all dangers adventures
are past hoping for. They may happen, and Life
NAV 0s but they are not laid down IN the programmes
and IS Cicero Gays of the Immortality of the soul to
he rather ardently desired than confidently hoped
our horses are safely shod they sureJOtel
orr burroquercs are too weldiscplined and attentive
ard the peasanty you encounter, unlike the romantic
individuals one meets in the mountains tue
bjrhvavs of SPAIN neither fuslade terry yOu-rob
you neither Of your money nor your wits
The maiinbel vas tolling as after tOllsOme accent
reached the plateau, about tEothrds up the mountain,
On which is placed the church ia Nossa Senhora Do
Monte. Tie doors stood persuasigely open, and
mingled ny deToJions with th0se OF the crowd within.
They w. 10 cannot pardon the act, may have perhaps
some indulgence for the motive thai dictated IT,
TLs prostratiou, and the swee: temperature Of the
morning wide Dante's Inferno Canto L. gave new en-
eOuragement 10 read. and accomplished the summit
Of the mountain, well leased with myself and mankind
To turn back and look immediate and not IN
pleasing impulse. The Bay Of Funchal, from the De-
seras TO Cape Gran. lie before me- under transparent
atmosphere, which gave more Of sky aud sea 20 the
vision than | Lad ever before COMMANDED and
every intermediate object between the mountain
and tie shore sh0ae in unw0nted brightness.
The few vessels that we're mO0red in the harbOr were
taking advantage Of tie dness and warmth OF the day
&c sstore their rain soaked sails, which, through the
vast distance below seemed but the foam OF broken
waves turned by under-eurreni 10 the hght The
turrets Of the Mount Church, "embosomed high mid
tnfted trees peepcd from TIE surrounding foliage
and BY their CAV eo0rng Of white paint relieved the
sceHe otherwise 100 tamey green Glen and precipce,
deep ravines and "bosky dells al, from the hight
stood seemed 10 illustrate what pointers cal rsPose.
Near w..-re r ed my t0rse l could distinguish
w uanuuriBg Ike the YOIcss Of lglIred me5 Which,