slumbers an ocean but it is an 

 ocean of tree tops. Conceive, if you 

 can, this vast expanse stretching on 

 and spreading away, till the bright 

 green becomes shaded into a deep 

 black, with not a sound to break the 

 solitude, and not a hand's breadth 

 of land in view throughout the 

 whole. It is a vast forest-ocean, 

 with mountain ridges for billows, 

 rolling smoothly and gently on like 

 the subsiding swell of a storm. I 

 stand on the edge of a precipice 

 which throws its naked wall far 

 down to the tops of the fir trees be- 

 low, and look off on this surpassing 

 wild and strange spectacle. The 

 life that villages, and towns, and 

 cultivated fields give to a landscape 

 is not here, neither is there the bar- 

 renness and savageness of the view 

 from Tahawus. It is all vegetation 

 luxuriant, gigantic vegetation ; but 

 man has had no hand in it. It 

 stands as the Almighty made it, ma- 

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