EEPORT AND JOURNAL. 69 



Koad to-day good, though it might cut up early in the spring. Higher ground, how- 

 ever, exists below or south of the road, over which, in this case, the Wagong could 

 travel. Day's travel, 13.3 miles. 



The damaged barometer chained and refitted with fresh mercury by Mr. Kngeb 

 mann. At sunset ascended high peak, back or west ot camp, to \ie\v the pan we 

 have been aiming at. It looks favorable. From this peak liad a most magnificent 

 view of the mountains in every quarter of the horizon— the Humboldt range, to the 

 east of north, showing its white snowy summits far above the intervening ones. 

 These distant views have, at least on my mind, a decidedly moral and religious effect ; 

 and I cannot but believe that they are not less productive of emotions of value in this 

 respect than they are of use in accustoming the mind to large conceptions, and thus 

 giving it power and capacity. The mysterious property ot nature to develop the 

 whole man, including the mind, soul, and body, is a subject which T think has not 

 received the attention from philosophers which its importance demands; and though 

 Professor Arnold Guyot, of Princeton, has written a most capital work on the theme, 

 "Earth and Man", vet a great-deal remains to be done to bring the matter 

 to the profit of the world at large, which, it seems to me, a wise and beneficent 

 Greater has ordained should be gathered from the contemplation and proper use of 

 his works. 



But then the question arises, Do we rise from the contemplation ot nature to 

 nature's God, and therefore to a realization of the amplitude and reach to which our 

 minds are capable, by our own unaided spirit; or is it by the superinduced Spirit of 

 the Almighty Himself, which we have received, it may be, on account of His only 

 Son ? But these speculations may be considered as foreign to the necessary rigor of 

 an official report; and I, therefore, will indulge in them no further than to say that, 

 according to my notions, the latter I believe to be the true theory.* 



* I must confess that in all the works of Baron Humholdt with which I am conversant, I have never seen any- 

 thing to indfea ta ' ! " • !ti11 ""- " i -"' hich ' t ° mymiDd i».^ ya ™ 

 a.-li-lit of adoring I lim "of whom, and through v 



fc he says upon the s 



thoughts awakened by a 







B look upward to the 

 *s the vast expanse t 



rith the order and 1 



s rivaled and -til! upholds ai 



ow limits of c 

 vault of la-ay. 





. (]„ h.i-iit of his couceptio 





icau Geographical ami Statistical Society,^ 



■, the troi 

 ■'Erdkunder&Cv or the science of the globe in its relati 



fdisclosTthe infinitude of Him who is the beginning and end, the alpha and omega of all tihmg* 



o disclose ine iuuuiiu „ „w. w th« mntto w bottom ot tne 



