290 MOUNTAIN SCENERY. 



dark forests, and rugged pathways, with steep 

 precipices that make one shudder to behold." I 

 cannot say that I entirely agree with him, for 

 notwithstanding that I have wandered through all 

 the wildest scenes of the Himalaya, my heart 

 clings to the remembrance of the varied beauties 

 of our English landscapes, where fields of waving 

 golden corn, green meadows, woods, and gentle 

 meandering rivers, alternate. There is a certain 

 charm in such scenes that has an indescribable 

 attraction to every traveller of the Anglo-Saxon 

 race. He feels that it pertains of home of the 

 land of his fathers, with which no other spot on 

 earth can compare. Yet there cannot be a doubt 

 of the influence of mountain scenery upon the 

 mind, and there is a spell in its contemplation 

 that never palls. Here the wanderer's feet are 

 rarely weary, his knapsack never heavy. 

 Mountain There is something invigorating in 



the pure bracing air of the higher al- 

 titudes that appears to revive the spirits after a 



