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they ever and anon drooped their heads and lifted them again, 

 or swung from side to side, as the wind blew them about. 

 These beautiful plants, so well calculated to impress the heart 

 with God's wisdom and beneficence, may well be likened — 



To matin worshippers, who bending lowly 

 Before the rising sun, God's sleepless eye, 

 Send from their chalices a sweet and holy 



Incense up on high ; 

 'Neath cluster'd boughs, each floral bell that swingeth 

 And tolls its perfume on the passing air, 

 Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth 



A call to prayer. 



In contemplating the scenery of our route, much as we 

 were struck with the variety of objects which made up the 

 landscape, — ^hills, streams, rocky banks, gentle slopes, trees, 

 wild plants and flowers, — we were I think quite as much 

 impressed with the wonderful way in which these objects all 

 blended and harmonized with one another. How impossible 

 is it for man even with the highest skill in gardening, and 

 with a full command of forms and colours, to accomplish 

 similar results ! At Chatsworth, the princely seat of the 

 Duke of Devonshire, the taste of Sir Joseph Paxton has been 

 exhausted in attempting to produce an imitation of rural 

 scenery, with which view, great boulders and huge pieces 

 of rough rock have been collected, grouped together, clothed 

 with flowers, ferns, and mosses, and enlivened with sparkling 

 water-falls. But the eye accustomed to the truth and beauty 

 of nature, soon detects the imposition ; and this part of the 

 grounds on which so much expense and ingenuity have been 

 lavished, excites surprise more than admiration. 



In passing Akeyside, Dr. Hood of Maines pointed out to 

 the party a patch of natural oak trees. It is a remnant of the 

 forest which in former days covered a large part of the east 

 of Berwickshire ; evidence of which is aifoided by the names 

 of many other places in the district, — as Houndwood, Green- 

 wood, Swinewood, Brocklewood, Laixwood, Handaxwood, 

 Harewood. It was one of the royal forests, in which the 

 Scottish kings exercised their right of hunting, and for the 



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