The Panola star. ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.) 1856-1857, 1856-10-01

auaintance with her is formed !;
for it was here | found myself in
deed alone, perched upon, and
surrounded by, mountains OF the
most immeasurable height and sur
passing grandeur, their towering
peaks shooting up in thousand
fantastic shapes, while blackening
caverns, with rayless depths and
fearful yawnings were stretched
along their base.
Cherries, indeed, was the pros
pect, and you may easily imagine
my feelings as / sat on these lone
ly battlements of nature, far ont
from any habitable world; and
while thus Eliminating upon and
contemplating the grandeur and
sublimity of the spectacle before
me, my mind was seized with a
pleasing, but melancholy sensa-
ton - pleasing to behold this
strange piece of workmanship OF
Him who gave the winds their
weight, and taught the waters how
to flow; and melancholy, because
l met no animated beings or in
habitants to greet and welcome
weary traveller, and admirer of ma
lures mighty works, for the whole
globe is Il cold, rugged and barren
region, with no appearance OF an
imal or vegetable life, being at
present altogether unsultcd to be-
ings constituted like ourselves.
With these evidences before me |
was thoroughly convinced that she
was uninhabited and holding 1t
as cardinal principle, that moth
ing was ever made without serving
its makers purpose, and she being
part of the great system OF
things, has her specific functions
to perform, - these reflections
led me to enquire what these
functions were. | first thought OF
her power to control the tides
then of the silvery light she sends
to cheer the sons of earth, in their
lonely and melancholy houses it
then occurred to me that she
served as the beacon light OF the
earth-but even all this was not
adequate to her capacities SO ]
tnrnnI In tl.at Ia Il.
she moved in strict obedience TO
the general laws of gravitation,
exercised upon her by other globes
near whose orbits she was placed,
she exerts like influence upon
them and Others, according to THEN
respective magnitudes, and the
distance which separates them.
1t was my intention to make some
geological examinations, but time
would not permit; and having
finished the other Investigations
here to my satisfaction, and feel
ING somewhat refreshed, bid this
lonely globe adieu, and proceeded
onward but in the multitude OF
my reflections, | forgot to examine
my way-bill, to enquire the hour,
or TO take an obserNation-all OF
which was of great Importance.
Having neglected these particu-
lars, was as mariner after u
storm at sea, who had been driven
by the gales TO unknown parts
and at this time WAS swceping
along through the upper oceans oil
space, my locks yielding to the
gentle waves of the ETHEREAL ele-
ments, and feeling anxious to de
ternline my whereabouts, | ran
hastily over my way-bill, and
found that the next port OF en-
try on my way was Venus. | then
began to conjecture as to the dis
lance | remembered to have
learned, when school boy, that
this interior planet, or aerial city,
when at her inferior conjunction,
is 26,000,OOO of miles from the
earth. and as had passed the
moon (as | supposed, in that direc-
tion) l thought l must be near
half way but alas, for human
calculation. When | took my OBJ
servation l discovered, to my utter
establishment, that l had tarrled
at the first depot 1.-THE moon] till
she foated round in her orbit full
half a Notwithstanding me
near 5O,O0O,O00 of miles from We
nus. Being thus retarded in my
progress, | was compelled to pass
over many attractive scenes, with
scarce passing notice, that would
| haua haon In Stluctirn On / Sxuor,t