of. NOTES TAKEN. 
spared to return and tell of all the wonders and beauties of 
nature we had seen and were to see, and we were gone. 
The long twilight and the bright moon succeeding made 
our journey through the woods much easier than we had 
anticipated, though the road was much broken and the 
trees low, stunted and very dense. 
The timber is post oak and black jack, and the soil very 
" poor. 
Though these night ‘itsddlies prevented our making many 
observations along the road, still they were very judicious, 
as the oxen escaped the heat, and better still, the flies, 
which as I before observed rendered them almost unman- 
ageable, There is a wildness about them, also, which 
renders them very fascinating. To watch the shadows 
grow deeper and deeper, to let the fancy play and imagine 
a lurking foe in every thicket, or fashion a stunted tree or 
a bush into a panther or a wolf—then to ride in advance of 
the train, build a fire, and flinging oneself upon the gropnd, 
snatch a few moments sleep, or carol out some camp-fire 
ditty, with wolves howling in the distance, and miles of 
uninhabited country around, is a romance in real life, which 
to be enjoyed must be experienced, 
Intending to pass entirely through before camping, we 
stopped half-way to rest the cattle, and lighting a blazing 
fire, our sad thoughts at sunset gave way to many a rollick- 
some glee and hearty joke, until the old woods rang with 
merriment, and the bright moon seemed to shine brighter 
