104 THE HIVE OF THE BEE-HUNTER. 
where but yesterday the lead would have in vain gone 
down for soundings. 
Such is the great Aorta of the continent of North 
America; alone and unequalled in its majesty, it pro- 
claims in its course the wisdom and power of Gop, who 
only can measure its depths, and “turn them about as 
a very little thing.” 
