172 Notice of the White Mountains. 
successful close of the Virginia campaign. I cannot 
promise you my actual features would do justice to your 
portrait at that time; but the heart is the same. 
The account you give of the great Water Communica- 
tion through those countries which I saw, for the great 
part, a wilderness, while I acted as Commander. in the 
Northern Department, is truly enchanting.. In those 
wonders of virtuous freedom, national sense, and unshack- 
led industry, my mind seeks a refuge from too many dis- 
quiets and disappointments on this side of the Atlantic.” 
Mr. Durand has chosen to execute his work in lines— 
the mode of engraving adopted, as we believe, by 
all the distinguished artists of this*age, when they put 
forth their powers on works of dignity and importance; 
calculated to challenge the admiration of future genera- 
tions as well as of the present. We pretend not to criti- 
eal skill, but may perhaps be allowed to remark, that Mr. 
Durand (who was advantageously known before as our 
best engraver of portraits) has produced a print, which 
delights the eye and the mind, at the hundredth inspection, 
and which will prove a pleasing and instructive substitute, in 
the case of those persons who have never seen, and may 
never be able to see the original picture. We are grati- 
fied to learn, that, although the sale of this print has, hith- 
erto, been by no means so extensive as its merits deserve, 
still so many copies have been sold as to Wea) the Goee 
of engraving the other pictures. 
The entire collection of these prints must form a very 
interesting exhibition in the family circles of the present 
day, and will be regarded by posterity as an inyalaaeie 
treasure. 
ART. XVIL— Notice of. an excursion among the White 
Mountains of New Hampshire, and to the summit of 
Mount Washington, in June, 1823, with’ miscellaneous re- 
marks, by James Preror. 
Tue White Mountains present the most elevated ground 
in the United States, and form a part of a primitive range, 
that diverges from the highlands separating New-England 
from Canada, and passes in a south-west direction through 
