40 WANDERINGS IN 



JOURNEY. 



FIRST two thousand acres of grass, with here and there 



\TTt>XTI7V 



a clump of trees, and a few bushes and single 

 trees, scattered up and down by the hand of 

 nature. The . ground is neither hilly nor level, 

 but diversified with moderate rises and falls, so 

 gently running into one another, that the eye 

 cannot distinguish where they begin, nor where 

 they end ; while the distant black rocks have the 

 appearance of a herd at rest. Nearly in the 

 middle there is an eminence, which falls off gra- 

 dually on every side ; and on this the Indians have 

 erected their huts. 



To the northward of them the forest forms a 

 circle, as though it had been done by art ; to the 

 eastward it hangs in festoons ; and to the south 

 and west it rushes in abruptly, disclosing a new 

 scene behind it at every step -as you advance along. 

 This beautiful park of nature is quite sur- 

 rounded by lofty hills, all arrayed in superbest 

 garb of trees ; some in the form of pyramids, 

 others like sugar-loaves, towering one above the 

 other, some rounded off, and others as though 

 they had lost their apex. Here two hills rise up 

 in spiral summits, and the wooded line of commu- 

 nication betwixt them sinks so gradually, that it 

 forms a crescent ; and there the ridges of others 

 resemble the waves of an agitated sea. Beyond 

 these appear others, and others past them ; and 

 others still farther on, till they can scarcely be 

 distinguished from the clouds. 



