New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-14
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too, sna Tie shiss favored uh. Tbs reputsd
nonotony IL DO real1sof tha Lower Misaia
sippi MAS lost in the geners hiEad Nhich res
suFning Spring breathes around especially for
ahoas who otter long toiling ana sN sltering Il
she stsa1n end REX of TIE close town. IA sud
lenly set ii large, il ~ their senses, u taste
khe forgotten ghts 81 Nature and 81 freedom
never islt more than upon this passage,
skrough all It's shifts 81 scenery, that pleasure
81 ted being which Milton and Gray have
Ilescribed. this ono veil, that beautifully
All ons wbo, long III po9ulops cities pent,
Whsts homes thick sud servers annoy the AT
Fdr the isuinz, on = summer morn 70 breathe
AMoDg the pleasant Images ind farms
Adjoi6ed. from each thing met conccives dslig
ne smell II grain OF tedded grass Of kline
Or dairy each rural sight, saoh rural sound. Il
Not that just these things the gay yillag&
the trim farm, the waving grain field, the foV-
r~dappled meadow, the sunny pasture dotted
With its lowing herd, Of those other rural sights
md sounds and smells which salute you in Mil
son 8 verse and make Up the pastoral charm Of
:sther regions are met along the winding caurst
/ of our great river The beauties which he of;
fers are of 10 such toy-shop sort he dresses up
10 Arcadia upon his banks, no tiny wonders Of
The picturesque, that In their sweet but wild
9ancifn1ness Of shades and lights, Of small groves
md glades and tinkling brooks that descend in
as,,re cascades from what might almost seem
]. n;m;crv II Mountains, half appear a. If the
work Of Art, not Nature but he, our King Of
Rivers, pours along his vast vale that turbulent
nave Il his, and scatters about him, in proper
tion ~ r.. Il rrnr,de;,I Of broad fertility. huge,
that set III nancht ali mere prettinesses Of land
scape aud astonish YOU with their incessant
image Of boundless wealth. IT'S, in d word 10
scenery as little as possible Of that fairy-land
sort which seems made on purpose for the
painter, and it wants, or at least has not, the
ninuter charms which are needful to the mere
spioture but it's character forbids them, and
offers only strange beauties Of its own-a night.
ness Of strength and wealth, a greatness, pro
fusion fusion, = magnifcsnce Of vegetation, seen no
ahere else. Every thing else Of rich looks puny
and stinted III comparison; 50 vast is the scale
npon which all Ii cast. Contrasted with what
ever ID fair Id other lands, it strikes one like
suddenly passing as in Swift,s fable) from Lii
liput into Brobdignag; and, as if its features
only appeared less fine to us, because our own
ewes are too small to see as any thing but coarse
the gigantic beauties that stretch before us;
10 feel the force Of what mean, but could not
without many words explain so distinctly, pray
refer to Gulliyer,s description Of the bosom 81
the fair Grandchildren. To those Of her own
stature- lants Of hundred yards high
nothing could lie sweeter OF more delicately
smooth while to the minute vision Of his dwarf
81 eyes, her skin looks like the hide Of white
elephant, and the down upon it like enormous
|sbristles. It
Ia need not speak Of particular points along the
way for the river-coast is probably better
known to one-half your readers than to me,
| Monette has amply told it's local histories, Ga.
| syarre somewhat too iniiatedly its romance, and
the g River Guide. gives ali the world, in .
humber strain, it's topography. I will set up q
competition with none oS them. Fer at least
am free from the infrmity Of those American
tourists who, going to countries already Though
/ they know it not) perfectly we'll understood by
1.-THE we'll informed, hasten to write home their
travels, every word, except their own shallow
remarks and sorry adventures, stolen from the
| guides book. There was time when, apparently
only the learned went abroad now, to Judge
| by the books, It's only the blockheads who 90 t.
see foreign parts; and every senseless creature
that knows nothing ut home. no sooner gets be-
yond seas than he sets up to enlighten the earth
las 6 picked man Of countries, d fellow d
those sages who at first brought wisdom from
one part Of the world to another, Or 81 The
T. fara that fiEnnvprpd Iiafprt 10
20 80 Z 10 1i.oo ssreu en0 uiseins -
s,ons wnivn su0n sases nase more mlnueeiy eA
80 nay "il'o mnae - aireauy De'.el
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sAo suosO e, /" nus salu DloAens ane
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'ss !. n, auoius usn oass' 'na
:, @pas' =, .s anu snea ~ insal
soon as be was oyerthrown Methinks forese,
1 yet another embassadorial book, that will ado
| 10 the copious honors Of its author and hi
family. ri wager MY head against 81 mpki,
that tie discreetest IL diplomatists, our ow,
4 SOULS, has already far advanced volume, an,
Il ....t i. ". $3.50, ).
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small 90 revealed 70 the deilghted eyes OF 81
tailors and milliners the whole secret history o
i the olothes. controversy and the war of tn
i wardrobe 7 hone. however tint. either. "a tba
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u verse. Ils put step at any event, iron
/ the Ossianic prose of Souls to heroico-comica
i metre and as for matter. the incidents ar