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descending on the length of the road before him, they cov- 

 ered it arid the fences completely with black: when they 

 again rose, arid after a few evolutions descended on the 

 skirts of the high -timbered woods, they produced a most 

 singular and striking effect. Whole trees, for a considerable 

 extent, from the top to the lowest branches, seemed as if 

 hung with mourning. Their notes and screaming, he adds, 

 seemed all the while like the distant sounds of a great cata- 

 ract, but in a musical cadence. This is a scene which may 

 be paralleled every autumn in the grain districts of the 

 West and South. 



