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business / said I . That ' s a fact / said he ; ' if a man can drive two trades under one roof , why should'nt he ? It stands to reason , for it saves rent , and fills up odd hours / ( Well , ma ' am / said one of our inquisitive companions to an oldish lady , after we had taken our seats again ,, you are going ,
I suppose , as far as Worcester V ' Yes / c Further , perhaps V f Yes / < To Northampton ? < Yes . ' « To Albany V < Yes / ' To Buffalo ? ' < Yes / < How much further T < Why to Mesopotamia , in Ohio / ' Bless me ! all alone V < Yes to be sure ; it ' s nothing at all ; there are stages , and steam-boats , and canals , and lakes , and rivers all the way , and it is not above fifteen hundred or two thousand miles / 6 And are you not afraid of accidents V < Accidents ! why there can ' t be any accidents / Here she began to fumble in her reticule . ' Law me ! what a spot of work ! if I haven ' t spilt all my Cologne !'
The woods were full of birds making the air resound with their melody . The robin , the thrush , the towhee , the song sparrow , the field sparrow , the indigo bird , and the fly-catcher distinguished themselves by the spirit and briskness of their notes . It is unaccountable how the notion ever got abroad that the American birds were inferior to the European in melody : naturalists who have never visited this country have spoken of the silence of the American forests , and remarked that nature had given the feathered tribes in this quarter a superior brilliancy of plumage ,
but had denied them the powers of melody . Nothing can be further from the truth than this last . Europe has never exhibited to
my observation any thing comparable to the vocal concerts of the American woods . In a brig ht summer morning , the chorus that bursts upon you from every thicket is really wonderful for the sweetness and variety of its strains . Here the feathered tribes preserve a secure and undisturbed asylum amidst the thick forests which still overspread the land . In Europe , two or three thousand years of occupation have enabled the inhabitants to
change the face of nature , to extirpate the forests , plough up the plains , and mark every spot with their habitations . The very mountain tops are shorn and built upon . Here , on the contrary , the ancient forest continues to stand ; for even in New England , the oldest , most populous , and highly cultivated part of the Union , immense portions of the mighty woods of old meet your view in every quarter . The land consists of hills and mountains ,
for it is rare to meet with a square mile of plain , and every mountain and hill-top is covered with trees . This imparts a peculiar feature to the landscape ; the mountains at a distance have seldom that lig ht mellow tint , even under the clearest sky , which the mountain scenery of Italy presents , but look almost black , and print a sharp distinct outline upon the horizon . The White Mountains are the blackest I ever saw , though it is true
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American Sketches * 9 #
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/13/
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