NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



no less honourable Penns, and Baltimore, and Sel- 

 kirk, lay foundations of future empires. We would 

 have our young men of fortune go abroad into 

 the world as soon as their scholastic education is 

 completed, — not to spend a few idle years in Paris, 

 Rome, or other of the common enervating haunts, 

 — they might as well remain in mother's drawing- 

 room or father's stable ; but to view man and nature 

 under every appearance. Let them acquire horse- 

 manship on the Pampas of La Plata ; hunt the lion 

 and the elephant, and other game, at the Cape, and 

 study the botany and natm-al history of these proli- 

 fic wilds. Let their ideas shoot while they recline 

 under the lone magnificence of the primeval forest, 

 while they gallop over the unappropriated desert, 

 free as the Bedouin, or lie down composedly to sleep, 

 serenaded by the hyena and jackal's howl, and 

 lion's roar. Let them learn geology and mineralogy 

 on the Andes and Himalaya, and around every shore 

 where the strata are denuded. Let them wind about 

 among those abrupt rocks and craggy precipices, 

 where they may contemplate the sea-bird's house- 

 hold economy — the wild herbs of the cliff— the vege- 

 tation and shells and monsters of the ocean — the 

 solitary white sail from distant land — the vestiges 

 of olden time, the exuviae of former worlds, in the 



