Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-28

l. plain, I say, save on the extreme east, There two paralell lines of low precipices, violate the law that stretched the ranges of the noun tains of the Moon, eastward and westward, detach themselves, and starting at a right an gle toward the North, pierce this vast desert prairie through it's whole breadth, and disap
 pear, only when their summits discern the blue waters of the Mediterranean in the distance. These two lines of precipiees form natural ana stupendous trough or conduit from to- iz miles Tn width, so contrived as to receive the immense water she from the northern slopes of the mountains of the Moon, and pour it in scarcely diminished volume, into the sea. :. more than 1900 miles distant. This was 9he trap and it was baited with manure!,
 The plain which this conduit pierces lies just on the border of the Tropic of Cancer, without mountains to bring down moisture, without watercourses, springs or shade, it is measureless waste of solitude and death, the home of the whirlwind and the simeon The sun descending below it on the summer solas- tice. walks there with burning feet. It is his own loved land of fire The wide earth glows like seven times heated furAae-sending a vast column of hot air. whirlid ll leadily up. ward. The place of this heated air is supplied by draft from the North, causing what are called the 'Etesian winds, that for several months never cease to blow from the sea south ward. These winds find everywhere surface warmer than the one from which they gathered their moisture, and consequently never part with drop of it for the thirsty soil, till they pour against the chilly summits of the noun tains of the Moon. These compressing the rarifed air, squeeze out its water as from Q sponge, causing it to fall in copious and pro 2 tracted rains. This pereolatiHg throughlthe decaying litter of a lest vegetation, leeches out len water courses, it is mingled with mineral fertilizers, and the flood thus charged is hurled, whirled and dashed, foaming, roaring shoot ing over fall, gully, precipice, and rapid; 90 that it retains all the fertilizing wealth in so- lution till it reaches the Falls of Syene. There spreading out a broader flood, the waters slowly loiter, curl and eddy, down to tue Sea. As with the return of the sun to the southern tropic, the waters subside.,, Lo for; eight hundred miles the soil of this trough, is evenly spread to the depth of from half an inch to an inch and half, with compost of unequalled richness, ready instantly to bear seed. sd, |,
 Thus here was provided land, the like of which, the sun nowhere visits in ailhis course
 Deserts to right of it. deserts to left .offit, a wilderness to the south never penetrated by civilized man, till within our times, and,to the north impossible morasses, in which the Nile lost itself, on its way to the sea--yet within it's narrow limits the Eden of the world 1t was inevitable that whatsoever tribes of men once braved the repellant solitudes that sepa- rate it from the rest of the earth, weary of the mazes through which they had wandered, and checked from further emigration, should there build houses to remain in, and with each suo ceeding generation depend more and more upon the soil for livelihood,
 Who those were, who first looked on this idyllic land, we do not certainly know. 4 soone far Worthier of the painters art, 6nt vastly more momentous to the human race than the discovery of the Mississippi Of the Pacific. was witnessed by the Arabian chills when the pioneers of the spade and the plough, first looked westward from their summits." We know why they had parted company from heir associates of Sinner. These disregarding a we'll understood divine instructian to disperse and settle upon the earth, were then engaged in building not town or houses, but tower. that should be visible far on the plains, and serve as landmark to direct their course by, when following their game afar, they would otherwise be separated from their associates
 A simple but effective interpretation of an un: seen power, rendered such an association for ever afterwards impossible. They merely were made to use new words. That was all. "i
 Suppose, for instance, hundred workmen, laying brick, side by side on some great build ing, when suddenly every other man among them, is taken with dutch on the brain Picture to yourself their open mouthed amazement, as dropping their tools, they pause to takein a sense of the strange phenomenon. Imagine the growing storm of mutual resentment at the senseless gargon. Think of the fight that en- sues, as by common impulse, each rushes pell nell to infict, with sticks, bricks, fists or teeth appropriate retribution on some other. Within ten minutes of the commencement, work has ceased entirely, and old friends are mortal en. emies. ..f -....s...-.g,..,..l- ,5 ,.,,. ....., aa s What then could have been the result, among these fierce men and children, that knew not before that human beings could differ in speech, but bloodshed, mortal hate, and speedy disper- sion pursuing and pursued. ..-stF .sg,sa
 Let us follow one of the participants in that scene as alone he slowly winds his way from the place of labor 50 suddenly suspended, to. ward distant palm grove Picture him to yourself, one whose step, is springy and ma gestic, his shoulders broad. and on his massive brow .he frown of bitter hate, not wholly able to hide the habitude of gentler feelings. He pauses, as he hears the grove at sight of a tram quill group beneath it's shade, Then leaning on his spear, he listens to the b1ithe song of his white throated wife, as she dresses a! kid, trophy of the dart of her son, a graceful youth reclining by her side. A daughter glid- ing with fawn like tread, brings water from the spring, and the faithful dog, at his mis- tress feet. looks wistfully, expectant of 2 bone, needless of infant hands that pull and twist his shaggy coat. 1''"' S"' 'i ''i The mad strife, the lionics rage of an hour ago, at this peaceful sight, darkens tohissmenn- ory-darkens, too, the usual life of aimless wanderings. A strong desire springs up with in him for shade to which the feet of wife and children have become wonted, ofbr ah ac- customed couch and scenes familiar to memory and love. .sr7r,sf,,ya 5,iw l,egrsvsr Itsy, n, F Angels invisible rejoice pat, this first dawnine thought of home, and they hasten to spread the sky, when the sun is now sinking to rest, with curtains of unwonted bsplendor, .allufingf tints of rose, crimson, amethyst, rand ngoldya tha tempt the fancy to dream that, beyond are pa yillions of serene repose awaiting weary men There his now tranquil eyes, rest stiil theii beauties fade, then rousingT from his breViere he tells his wife as he stands besideg her to morrow We will journey westward, 10 3
 So with the morning; while the bafed bull 'ders fled from the cursed plain, eastward again toward the mountains of Armenia, @dispersing to people the world with forest haunting races from whom descend the skulking Indian, prow' ling Bushman, burrowing Esquimaux, the papuan and the Tartar. These, hand in hand commence the march that civilization has never ceased to follow, toward the setting sun. nlt ,Montha after thev mipht he seep Weary and