, 1863-07-06

what extent Of country did 1t trayersc-Occu.
pied BY what people, with what manners, Gus
toms, language-1emained unanswered from
century to century. It WIS, perhaps, the
most familiar Of all foreign rivers to the
Greeks and Romans, and the most attractive
to their imaginations- They specnlated aud
wrote about 1t, and Lucan actually hit upon
the secret Of Its periodical inundations, as We
shall presently show, in one Of his poems.
But they we're content to regard It as natural
curiosity, and capital symbol for imaggina-
tire treatment, leaving 1t rs mysterious as
they found it. ...........
From the very earliest records Of 1t, we find
that it has been singularly attractive. Hero.
dotus, the old father Of history, who has been
| more abused than any other man who has IN
de1taken the thank1ess task Of instructing his
fellow men, whose descriptions Of ancient
countries and people and places have been
1aughed at as the most absurd inventions Of
Greek lying, but whom more modern science
ana travel have avenged by attesting to the
literal and absolute veracity of his statements
has some fine memorial lines about the
Nile but no solution Of its mystery. Such 8
hold, Indeed, had this great geographic prob.
lem upon the ancient mind, that Caesar, who
represented it in his time, declared TINT he
would gladly hare let the civil war, in which
he was engaged, take care Of it's own issues II
he could discover its sources alone, or at the
head Of one of his cohorts. But the Nile
would not succumb even to Caesar, but pre
served its secret through all the great reyolu-
tions Of the ancient world, through all the
Bible hIstory-tbroueh The ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the Roman Empire. and the fonndinp anf,
development ofmodern Eprooean c3vilizst,on
Whatever xns attemnted In tha doma3na ~
science. and art. conquest. Discovery and set.
tlement, however impossible It looked thev
succeeded in achie1inc-but this Nile discov-
and ftudaliem had risen. and fallen: whilst
1t kept its Own counsel. The dark ages had
been succeeded By the revival Of learning. bv
The printing press, and bv wonderful litera.
ture. Tie human mind lad asserted md min.
tanned It's freedom in politics and religion. Our
great America, with its great unspealable des.
tiny had been discoyered-the United States
consolidated md built into mighty renuh1,c
all The rivera on 1ha continent t7ava,.ad
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