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spring time, and it is curious to see what an object of 

 interest the river becomes. Its rise and fall are the 

 chief topics of conversation. So goes the world — New 

 York has its objects of interest — the country village its 

 — and the settler on the frontier his — each one is filled 

 with the same anxieties, hopes, fears and wishes — 

 overcome by the same discouragements and misfor- 

 tunes, and working out the same fate ; man still with 

 that mysterious soul and restless heart of his, greater 

 than a king, and immortal as an angel, yet absorbed 

 with straws and maddened or thrown into raptures by 

 a little glittering dust. 



