

CHAPTER XX. 



A bird's-eye view of the speclater. 



Turn we now to the northward, for our "Wild Scenes" 

 have lingered long upon the green and waving Plains that 

 shimmer in the breezy sunshine of the mellow South. We 

 have felt the slumbering electricity in its treacherous air jar 

 us through smiles, and amidst its fierce extremes of beauty 

 and of terror, realized something of the wild unexpectedness 

 of action peculiar to life amidst the latent power of such 

 fierce elements, as there " do mostly congregate." 



The " Hunter-Naturalist" — like an invisible Presence — 

 has walked with us amidst these scenes, " informing the 



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