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of the skies assailed in vain*. He ascended 

 the bluest summit which shades the source of 

 the iManangahela, and, roaring aloud, bid de- 

 fiance to every vengeance. The red lightning 

 scorched the lofty firs, and rived the knotty oaks, 

 but only ^laaced upon the enraged monster -f-. 

 At length, madd :ned with fury, he leaped over 

 the waves of the west at a bound, and this mo- 

 ment reigns the uncontroulcd monarch of the 

 Wilderness, in despite of even Omnipotence it* 

 seliV* 



The language of this Tradition i is certainly 

 English, and perhaps a little too highly dress- 

 ed i but the ideas are truly Indian : it is 



* It is a curious coincidence of circumstances, that in the 

 wrilings of an ancient Jew rabbi, a Jewish tradition is men- 

 tioned, stating o^ig of the animals described in Job under the 

 Dame of Behemoth (from which the term Mammoth by ac- 

 cident has been derived) is still living somewhere, and le- 

 served ss a feast for the Jews on their restoration. 



t The beauty of this passage can only be felt by those who 

 know what an American thunder-storm is, and who know, 

 that while by a stroke of lightning the oak is shattered lo 

 pieces, .hz :u".iOus fir is only inflamed. 



X Which I fir^t fcund in Gary's Museum for 1789, and 

 since in Winterbotham's History of America. 



