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CHAPTER XX. 
A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE SPECLATER. 
TuRN we now to the northward, for our ‘“ Wild Scenes” 
have lingered long upon the green dnd waving Plains that 
shimmer in the breezy sunshine of the mellow South. Ws 
have felt the slumbering electricity in its treacherous air jar 
us through smiles, and amidst its fierce extremes of beauty 
and of terror, realizod something of the wild unexpectedness 
of action peculiar to life amidst the latent power of such 
fierce elements, as there “do mostly congregate.” 
The “ Hunter-Naturalist”—like an invisible Presence— 
has walked with us amidst these scenes, “informing the 
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