Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1896-07-02
SOLITUDE AND SILENCE,
A Peculiar Charm Possessed by South Az
rican Scenery.

rican Scenery.
A peculiar charm which South Afri-
can scenery possesses is that of primeval
solitude and silence 1t is charm
which is differently felt by different
minds. There are many who find the
presence Of what Homer calls ''the rich
works Of men" essential to the perfec-
ton Of landscape. Cultivated fields,
gardens and orchards, farmhouses dot
ted here and there, indications in one
form or another Of human life and Ia
Dor, do not merely give greater variety
to every prospect, but also impart an
element which evokes the sense of SYM
pathy with our fellow men and excites
q whole group of emotions which the
contemplation of nature, taken by it.
self, does not arouse.
No one is insensible to these things,
and some find little delight in any scene
from which they are absent. Yet there
are other minds to which there is some
thing specially solemn and impressive
in the untouched and primitive SIM
plicity Of country which stands now
just as it came from the hands Of the
Creator. The self sufficientness Of ma
ture, the insignificance Of man, the
mystery Of universe which does not
exist, as our ancestors fondly thought,
for the sake Of man, but for other pur-
poses hidden from us and forever undis-
coverable-these things are more fully
realized and more deeply felt when one
traverses an immense Wilderness which
seems to have known no change since
the remote ages when hill and plain and
valley were nodded into the forms we
see today.
Feelings Of this kind powerfully af-
feet the mind Of the traveller in South
Africa They affect him in the Karroo,
where the slender line Of rails, along
which his train creeps all day and all
night across long stretches Of brown
desert and under the crests Of stern,
dark hills. seems to heighten by con-
trast the sense of solitude-a vast and
barren solitude interposed between the
busy haunts Of men which he has left
behind on the shores Of the ocean and
those still buster haunts whittier he is
bent, where the pick and hammer sound
upon the Witwatersrand and the palpi-
tating engine drags masses Of ore from
the depths Of the crowded mine. They
affect him still more in the breezy high
lands of Matabeleland, where the eye
ranges over an apparently endless sue
cession of undulations clothed with tall
grass or waving wood, till they sink in
the blue distance toward the plain
through which the great Zambezi takes
it's seaward course. Professor James
Bryce, NJ. p. in Century.
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