PRAIRIE SCENERY. B § 
family, the place of assembling in Council having been 
changed to Doaxville, farther south, 2 
It was a long, rambling building, built of logs, and not 
different, except in size, from their ordinary houses. Here I 
dug up a singular piece of pottery, of an antique form, and 
covered with various devices, but was unable to get any infor- 
mation about it from the family. They said they had never 
seen anything like it before, and did not know how it came 
there. Its shape and whole appearance proved it to be very 
ancient, 
Our road from the stream was gradually ascending, and- 
bounded on both sides by timber, when of a sudden we 
reached the top of the ridge and had a view of the largest 
prairie we had yet met. 0, the glorious beauty of that scene. - 
Fancy would in vain attempt to paint it! Below, stretching 
for twenty-five miles in length, and twelve in breadth, lay a sea 
of pale green, hemmed in by timber of a darker hue ; flowers of 
every variety, shade and form, interspersed over the surface; 
a dark green belt of verdure here and there, marking the 
ravines and water-courses, and groves of trees, or clumps, or 
single trees, scattered in such perfect arrangement over the 
whole, as to seem as though some eminent artist had perfected 
the work, And truly so he did, for what artist can compare 
with the God who formed and arranged all these —- 
beauties now spread before us! 
The view, fully realized Mediated of the pitt of the : 
English nobility and gentry, tea = ‘the presence of 
