194 THE MEMORABLE. 



the snow of the Chimborazo, and of the column of 

 smoke ascending from the Volcano of Quito ; when, for 

 the first time, he shall gaze on a grove of tree-ferns, or 

 on the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The days on 

 which such wishes are fulfilled mark epochs in life, and 

 create indelible impressions ; exciting feelings which 

 require not to be accounted for by a process of reason- 

 ing."* 



* Views of Nature, p. 417. 



