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alike substantial, and as such, tangibly sensated the one of 

 the same or similar form and nature as the other, purer or 

 grosser, and so, prophetic by law, aural, magnetic and aerial 

 clouds and storms are to some extent, and ought to be gener- 

 ally, recognized nay, solid, metalic, meteoric and earth storms, 

 too, included ! And be it known, these greatest, tallest trees, 

 aspiring to serener realms above, beyond their watery, cloud- 

 capped summits, have also their great forest-loving Weather- 

 cock of the Wood for a use. Among sundry and divers 

 other fall forebodings nay, the never failing forerunner of 

 the wintry storms of the far West, we behold the great pre- 

 saging Pacific swell come rolling in, and lifting up a 

 mightier portentous wave, breaking tumultuous along the 

 sounding shore ! rampant, the surf's roar is borne higher on 

 sonorous wings of a clear, cool, and more humid autumn air 

 resounding far over dismantled highland hill, re-echoing the 

 great Coast Range crest ! ever and anon louder wave-tones 

 emphasize mine ear! And why not they, these, and those oth- 

 er signs, impress all animated nature as well! Even so, let 

 his imperial highness, the fiery-plumed knight, go his wont 

 aloft to picket the lonely outpost climbing his pinnacle of 

 fame the majestic redwood rampart rolling his wild re- 

 veille ; while the sweet little water ousel warbles her feminine 

 song beside the pure brink sheltered beneath the green shade 

 at his feet ! Testing this resonance on the fallen tree, listen- 

 ing, methinks I hear the soul of the viol pining, imprisoned ! 

 or anon the silent harp wakes the long slumber of the 

 ages ! 



" Let not this harp neglected lie, awake its silent strings, 

 And spirits from their depths will fly, with music on their wings.' 



