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some degree of regret. His eye has become familiar 

 with certain features of nature the hills, the peaks, 

 the dells, the gorges, the rushing waters, and the 

 smiling but narrow valleys. They have all 

 administered to his pleasure, whether he caught fish 

 or not. The imagination has dwelt upon them with 

 more or less intensity and affection ; and now, when 

 he has to bid them farewell, he feels they have 

 obtained a hold upon his heart, which he did not 

 previously anticipate. This is one of the grand 

 secrets which nature teaches us, in courting and 

 wooing her. She has an irresistible fascination about 

 her. Her smiles, and even her frowns and scowls, 

 have something seductively winning and engaging. 

 She stamps her character upon our remembrances, 

 and places it for ever before us. The rivers and the 

 trees, the hills and the fields, are the marks she 

 leaves on the journal of our memory. She fills us 

 with admiration at this spot, and overawes us at 

 that. "We have derived rich stores of joy and beauty 

 from east and west, north and south. We have 

 revelled in luxurious feelings from nature's inex- 

 haustible storehouse. The heavens and the earth 

 have administered to our gratification, and filled us 

 with lively hopes and aspirations. And now We 

 are about to leave these spots of sublimity and gran- 

 deur, and to saunter among tamer views and cham- 

 pagne landscapes. The hum, and noise, and bustle 

 of active and social life, will again engross the 

 senses, and fill our minds with images and materials 

 of thought, of an altogether different character. 



