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deiU care of nature for the origin of many of our 

 most valuable esculents which have become amelior- 

 ated by culture, and which use has rendered in a 

 measure indispensable to our convenience and comfort. 

 In the interminable forests where the voice of civi- 

 lized man has not been heard, nor the foot of civilized 

 man penetrated, where the silence of nature has con- 

 tinued undisturbed since the earliest dawn of creation, 

 save by the hov/lings of the untamed enemies of our 

 race, or the murmuring of v.aters rushing to their 

 appointed destination in hidden meanderings, or glid- 

 ing in silvery brightness through verdant meadows, 

 and over rocky precipices, tumbhng in wild and fear- 

 ful confusion into the deep chasm, thence flinging 

 their glittering spray upv^^ards, mingling in sunbeams, 

 and hanging midway in the heavens the transient 

 beauties of the bow of promise! — there, where na- 

 ture reposes in her lofty, but rude and simple gran- 

 deur, in coming years, though perhaps remote, men 

 from all sections of this vast country, and from nations 

 beyond the sea, will bo gathered together, and from 

 the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the far-off bor- 

 ders of the Pacific Sea, under the protecting ssgis of 

 our insignia of liberty, villages, and towns and cities 

 will arise, and associations will be established where 

 the cheering light of science and the arts shall blend 

 their influence, and seminaries of learning will be 

 founded, that shall give to mind its power and to 

 man his m.erited elevation, and a taste for all that ad- 

 ministers to the improvement of social life, and the 

 diffusion of the means of social happiness, and God 



