THF ARKANSAS, ITS GRAPES, AND CY-

 PRESS SWAMPS.
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From Flints Ualley of the Mississippi.

 "We continued to float on through this deep and inundated forest when at right an- gles to our course we discovered another O. pening. It was the Arkansas, moving on with majestic current of waters, of the col our of anattO dye. This is next to the Missouri, and from it's mouth, by its mean- ders to the mountains, is commonly compu- ted about 2,00O miles. Its course has been traced in these mountains at least 500 miles, and it is believed that the source of the Ar kansas has not yet been explored by our peo- pie. One singularity distinguishes this river from any other in the United States. Where it winds along among the mountains, all agree that it is bread and deep river, and carries a great volume of water. But no sooner does it emerge from the shelter of woods and mountains into a boundless and arid plain, composed to a great depth of quicksands, than it begins to disappear ; and in hundred miles from the very elevated mountains, near which it enters upon the plain, it iSfordable during the Summer. Still lower down it is d stream, according to the well known phrase of the country, " sunk in the sand ;" that is, 1t trickles amidst the banks of sand and peb- bles, so as, in many places, to exhibit dry channel of burning sand from bank to bank.

 Here, on these vast sandy plains. which will for ages be the Syrtes of America, the home of eks and buffaloes, are the wild fields of those rich native grapes, that aE travellers in these regions, ve>spoken of in terms of such admiration. They are said to be cenic- al in shape, large, of a beautiful blue, and transparent. The driving sands rise around the stem, that advances still above the sand. This sand performs the best office of pruning, covering the superfuous growth and foliage, indicating no wounds, and affordng good method of ripening the clusters in the his hest perfection by the reflection of the sun from the sand In the expedition of Major Long, the exteme sweetness of these grapes is re- corded, and other travellers have borne the same testimony. They speak of vast tracts covered with these rich clusters. shall have occasion elsewhere to speak of this native grape, which is so much extollsd in the in- terior provinces of Spain. They are com mon through the plne woods of Louisiana & known by the name of the pine woods grape. ftrg ... ....,. -l..-....-..

 This grape ripens in June. It would prob ably be an admirable grape t. cultivate. There are, alsn. varieties of autuInpal grapes, and