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heat, there is no remedy but to open wide every door 

 and window. The sirocco of some parts of Italy is 

 peculiarly unfavorable, and at times utterly destructive. 

 According to the letters of Messrs. Spaulding and 

 another missionary, who so lately travelled with their 

 wives over the Rocky Mountains, and to the mouth of 

 the Columbia, we have in that region a climate the most 

 mild, equable and temperate on earth, and correspond- 

 ing with the most favored countries of the south of Eu- 

 rope, of Portugal, and of Spain. They make mention 

 of one rich farmer near the mouth of that river, having 

 hundreds of horses, and many hundreds of cattle and 

 swine, which there roam at large, requiring no protec- 

 tion, and finding abundance of pasture at all seasons. 

 In his extensive gardens, they found the orange and 

 lemon trees, and the fig tree, flourishing luxuriantly in 

 open culture, in the latitude of 45 deg. the latitude of 

 Michigan and of Maine ! This vast region must also 

 prove eminently adapted to the culture of the mulberry 

 and of silk. Still later travellers have assured us that a 

 gap has recently been discovered through the Rocky 

 Mountains, twenty miles in width, and the practicability 

 of constructing a railroad from the navigable waters of 

 the river Missouri, to those of the Columbia, and 

 through the centre of our vast national domain, seems 

 now established beyond a doubt. Thus will that de- 

 lightful region, which promises to become one day the 

 Eden of our country, and those our distant and lone 

 settlements, bounding and immediately contiguous as 

 they are, to those of the aspiring autocrat of Russia, be 

 brought nigh, even under the wing and immediate pro- 

 tection of our country and the great Republic. Such a 

 project is indeed not in advance, but only commensurate, 

 with the onward march, and wonderful movements of the 

 age in which we live. Circumstances may, and will 

 arise, at some future, but not very distant day, which 

 will arrest the attention of the enlightened patriots 

 and statesmen of our country, and awaken them to its 



