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the impulse of a northwest tempest, is directed against prominent 

 portions of the shore, which consist of black and hard volcanic 

 rocks. Solid as these are, the waves have found an entrance in 

 veins of spar, or minerals of softer texture, and have thus been 

 led on their devastating course inland, tearing np large fields of 

 amygdaloid, or other rock; or, left portions of them standing in 

 rugged knobs, or promontories. Such are the east and west coasts 

 of the great peninsula of Keweena, which have recently become 

 the theatre of mining operations. 



"When the visitor to these remote and boundless waters comes 

 to see this wide and varied scene of complicated geological dis- 

 turbances and scenic magnificence, he is absorbed in wonder and 

 astonishment. The eye, once introduced to this panorama of 

 waters, is never done looking and admiring. Scene after scene, 

 cliff after cliff, island after island, and vista after vista are pre- 

 sented. One day's scenes of the traveller are but the prelude to 

 another; and when weeks, and even months, have been spent in 

 picturesque rambles along its shores, he has only to ascend some 

 of its streams, and go inland a few miles, to find falls, and cas- 

 cades, and cataracts of the most beautiful or masrnificent character. 

 Go where he will, there is something to attract him. Beneath his 

 feet are pebbles of agates ; the water is of the most crj^stalline 

 purity. The sky is filled, at sunset with the most gorgeous piles 

 of clouds. The air itself is of the purest and most inspiring 

 kind. To visit such a scene is to draw health from its purest 

 sources, and while the eye revels in intellectual delights, the soul 

 is filled with the liveliest symbols of God, and the most striking 

 evidences of his creative power. 



(b) Letters of Mr. If. ]Voolser/. Southern Literary Messenger^ 1836. 



Oneota, p. 322. 



These spirited and graphic letters are unavoidably excluded. 

 The evidence they bear to the purity of principle, justness of 

 taste, and excellence of character of a young man, now no more, 

 ought to preserve his name from oblivion. He accompanied me 

 in 1831, as a volunteer, in a leisure moment, an admirer of na- 

 ture, seekino; health. 



