Raumer on Mia CARA.
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The effect which Niagara has On edu,
Gated foreigners is well described in the
lately published travels of the celebrated
Won Raumer. He had heard so much of
this celebrated waterfall, and had witness
sed so much Of the exaggeration, which is
a fault of our people, that he concluded
that its fame rested on the quantity Of Its
waters. rather than on the sublimity Of The
waterfall. He expected, therefore. to be
less affected by it than by smaller, but more
picturesque waterfalls which he had seen,
such as Tivoli, Terni, or Rechenbach.
But when he came to view the cataract
these illusions were dispelled. He says:


son casting the first look at only one
of the falls, all this wisdom fell like thick
fog to the ground. When after hot day
walked out into the open air Of cold
night in Chamount, and saw before me
the glaciers of Mount Blanc and its neigh-
bors stifened in eternal snow, The thought
struck me, What would become ofihis be-
numbed nature, if God should but for a
moment withdraw His hand from il and
from feeble man! When, standing on
Etna, | beheld around me nothing but
destruction and death, | collected myself,
and compared this lawless, savage strength
with the Heaven ~imparted gift of the hu.
man soul, whose noble thoughts, in spite
ofalI apparent weakness, have more of life
and longer duration, than grey lava and
shapeIess ashes! 1t was quite otherwise
with Niagara. / could have shouted with
exultation; and my excited spirit scared
aloft, like the tones of an Eolian harp,
harmoniously blending with the thunders
of this miracle of Nature. Immersion in
this sea Of beauty seemed to renew the
vigor and vivacity Of early years; it was
fountain of rejuyenescence-such as the
presence of dry categories could never set
flowing. There was nothing frighlful,
horrible, oppressive, annihiIating, or re,
pulsive-but the beauty of Nature in her
nohlest manifestation and the most ANA
zing variety. No painter could represent
this world of moving wonders in full truth
and beauty; nor can any description be
successful. For if dwell on the won
drous unity and harmony Of all these phe-
nomena, their multiplicity is lost sight of;
ifthis last is made prominent, the former
disappears in the fragile mosaic of a dry
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