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ten in Florida, that the two songs are much 

 alike ; but it was a sharp lesson in caution. 

 When a prudent man finds himself thus be- 

 fooled, he begins to wonder how it may be 

 with the remainder of that precious body of 

 notions, inherited and acquired, to which, in 

 all but his least complacent moods, he has 

 been accustomed to give the name of know- 

 ledge. 



Here was a lesson, also, in the close rela- 

 tion that everywhere subsists between the 

 distribution of plants and the distribution 

 of animals. These were the only yellow 

 pines noticed in the neighborhood of Chat- 

 tanooga ; and in them, and nowhere else, I 

 found two birds of the Southern pine-bar- 

 rens, the red-cockaded woodpecker and the 

 yellow-throated warbler. 



At the base of the tower, when I finally 

 descended, I paused a moment to look at 

 a cluster of graves, eight or ten in all, un- 

 marked save by a flagging of small stones ; 

 one of those family or neighborhood burying- 

 grounds, the occupants of which — happier 

 than most of us, who must lie in crowded 

 cities of the dead — repose in decent pri- 

 vacy, surrounded by their own, with no 



