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Gogga Brown 



the spicier preparing her snare — each and all are 

 funds of rich instruction and amusement. . . . 



** The morning breaks forth with cloudless 

 sky — the birds are singing merrily — all nature is 

 clothed with richness and inimitable beauty — 

 while the sun pours forth his genial but not 

 oppressive heat. Come let us take a ramble 

 among those charms which can be found in 

 every nook and corner of this glorious Creation 

 of the Deity, and partake of those enjoyments 

 which fall to minds prepared to receive them . . . 



** Let us in imagination, schooled by study and 

 personal observation, gather a few random notes 

 among the mountains. Those mountains which 

 lift their proud peaks to the skies, and are long 

 anterior to the time of the Deluge. No beauties 

 of vegetation, of modest flowers, of majestic trees 

 are found on their summits, but all is sterility 

 and barrenness, while through their deep fissures 

 majestic waterfalls, unfathomable precipices and 

 large valleys meet the wondering gaze. At these 

 mountains various agencies of nature are manifest 

 — the lightning stroke, with awful power, rends 

 huge fragments of rock asunder — the wind in fury 

 scatters lesser parts — while, through the agency 

 of water, deep gullies are formed, and the 

 replenished torrent rushes onward in its irresistible 

 course .... 



