104 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 



where but yesterday the lead would have in vain gone 

 down for soundings. 



Such is the great Aorta of the continent of North 

 America ; alone and unequalled in its majesty, it pro- 

 claims in its course the wisdom and power of God, who 

 only can measure its depths, and '' turn them about as 

 a very little thing." 



