NOTE TO THE AUTHOR S EDITION. 



when the thoughts agree so well with one's own. 

 It is like the communion of kindred spirits, it 

 makes one forget the hardships of present life, 

 and, as it were, in vision transports one back to 

 the old homes and old kindred. In thought, in 

 feeling, we are akin, and who knows what other 

 ties there are between us ties that are, perhaps, 

 lost in the obscurity of the past ! 



But to say that I feel proud that I bear the 

 family name of one who can entertain millions of his 

 fellow beings with ennobling thoughts of the 

 beauties of Nature's handiwork, and who has the 

 power to cause these thoughts to be lifted to 

 Nature's God and to fill the minds of others with 

 aspirations for communion and fellowship with 

 Him and with expectations of an eternity of 

 joyous adoration above to say that I feel proud 

 would be to express very tamely my feelings ! 



We have Nature dressed in her grandest 

 beauties on this continent. Some of our forest 

 trees are noble specimens of their kind. Our 

 prairies are immense, our landscapes grand to 

 awfulness, our waterfalls fearful to behold ; but 

 the quiet, sweet repose of the beauties of our sea- 



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