True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-05-27

sup WHICH HOuIeu UVeI SedS dlu OCOduS
landed its passengers there, or might have
landed them.
"He felt the emotion of conqueror
for he had triumphed over difficulties, and
almost over death, and the world lay al
his feet. But he could not be proud; for
the cold was intense, penetrating into the
inmost marrow, utterly benumbing his
hands and knees, ard threatening to give
him sepulture among the everlasting
SHOWS and ice of .Atarat, where his body
would wait, in full symmetry and fresh
ness, for the trump of resurrection
Aware of his danger, he rallied his re-
naming strength, and sought rest behind
projecting peak, till finding his powers
revived, he rushed to the highest of the
three cones which rise from the summit
plateau, and drawing from his pocket a
flask Of mountain dew with which he
had fortified himself at the outset, like a
true Englishman, drank to The health of
the Queen, adding three burrahs, which
almost tore his lungs in pieces, as they
reverberated from the large sounding
board so near over his head. honor the
patriot in the traveller, whose first thoughts
in his enbyrean position were of his
country, and whose only voice uttered
there in the infinite solitude were for his
country; and | can forgive him the BRAN
dy flask under such circumsta for
the warm heart he carried in his bosom.
Shame on the American, in presence ol
such an example, who does not make the
heavens ring with oar country our
aohole country! and our country forever!
from every plain, from every hill, and ev.
cry mountain top.
Taking careful survey of the sum
nit plateau Of Ararat, Major Fraser
Judged it 10 be 300 yards in length from
East 10 west, by SO to 70 in width
1t was entirely covered with ice and snow
into the latter of which he sank to mi
knees. The panorama was grand ant
impressive beyond description. TO the
North were seen the peaks of the Cauca
sus covered with snow; on the East the
Araxes and the broad plains of Persia; OH
the West the mountain ranges of Arme-
MIA, while to the South the still waters Of
lake Van gittered in the sun like molten
glass. Al times the clouds, rising from
below, and spreading like mighty sheet
presented picture of strange and admi
rable beauty, both in their colors and the
gambols they seemed to be playing, cur.
rents of air breaking through them and
forcing up other clouds as it were edge
wise and at right angles with the plane Of
The others, and then driving them abou
in wild melee as though impelled by
! the spirits of evil. Sometimes 1t was ap
palling to LOOK down upon them in the
excited and fanciful advertisements.
"Again our traveller became exhausted
and sleepy, and despite his efforts to rail-
he sank down and slept an hour on tn
: very summit of Ararat. Awakenin
! from his sleep. he saw his danger, wit
: the consciousness Of little power to es
E cape it. To remain where he was wa
D death, while his exhausted powers mad
removal almost impossible. But he raj
e lied; he started, and sometimes in tn
t dark, and half way by moonlight, and Of
e ten sliding down on the snow and tn
1 glaciers, he at last reached the camp q
/, l2 o'clock at night, exhausted in ever
4 bone and sinew, and cruelty lacerated il
: his flesh by the huge and rough volcani
, rocks he was obliged to crawl over O
: creep around. His companions succeed
ed in reaching the summit, and retlrnin
!; in safety, though, very strangely, the
!, did happen to meet each other ascending
i; on the summit, or in the descent.
h "The lbex was seen high up in tn
d mountain, and on the very summit Q
y some Of the peaks; but no other animal
: were discovered, nor was fowl or bir
d seen flying in the heavens or restin
: upon the ground. The moth was tn
Is last form Of animal observed.
e "Tbe boundaries of three kingdom
1t almost touch upon Ararat, viz Russ
g Parsia, Turkey. On the Ru ssian sic
4. the mountain is almost perpendicdla
S, while on the Turkish, ascent by horses
to utterly impractioable for any distance.-
IN The juniper grows up the sides. and "
s. low everlasting, the blue bell, The forge
ID me not, large daisy, and flower I
IS sembling the China aster, while low
TX down grass is produced. A great part
n the mountain is composed Of black volc
re mic rock, while the cones rising here a
+ there, like so many chimneys, not on
remain the memorials Of mighty subt'
IS raueap power, which even raised AraI
he 10000 feet above the plain from the dee
ly but seemed preserved and ready to !
IL sumo their work, and dreurn 10 their
Ie, uses, whenever the dccreed day arrives
% Major Fraser was utterly spent
ne the hardships he endured and the effo
Ig. he made, but came off far better than
,ss companions, who in addition toexhausd
rs, were blind for two days.
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