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and streams that the eye ever looked upon, but all wild, 

 remember- all as nature threw them down there, among 

 old primeval things. His journey ings will not be toil- 

 some, he will have no tramping in the woods, save occa- 

 sional short carrying places, over which his boatman will 

 march with his craft, like a great turtle with his shell on 

 his back. He will see much that I saw, and have at- 

 tempted to describe, and a good deal that I did not see, 

 perhaps. And if he loves nature, and takes matters easy, 

 and gives himself time, he will come out of the woods, as 

 I did, a stronger, healthier^ and a wiser man. 



THE AUTHOR. 



