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the storm breathcs on it, waking up its myriad
low. toned voices which sing


The wild profound ,e;ernulbas


In natures aulher..


Oh, how silent and solemn it slumbers below
me, while away yonder TO the left shoot up into
the heavens the massive peaks of the Adirondsc
chain. Yet there is ore relic: to this vast forest
solitude. Like gems sleeoing in a moss bed,
lakes are every where glit'ering in the bright
sunshine. How calm ari ,Tustingly they sleep
on the bosom Of the wilderness. Thirty. SIX, d
hunter tells me, can be counted from this summit,
though do net see more tnan half this number.
There, like snake crawling out from the noun
tain gorge, comes Long Lake with its glittering
head, and yonder sleeps Forked Lake, and farther
on Racket Like. and farther still Great and
Little Tuppers Lake, and away mere luminous
po!nt-but will cut short the list, and indeed
many have no names. Some of these are four
aud six miles IN width, and yet they look like
mere pools at this distance and IL the midst Of
such vast forest.


have gazed on many mountain prospects in
this and the old I'D, but this wakened an en-

treiy new class of emotions l. was an Amer-
can scene, forming Ole of the distinctive features
OF our country, where nature seems to have
formed every thing on such large model merely
because she had SO much room to work in.
wanted to set fire to tdo trees on the summit ef
this mountain so as to present an unobs;ructed
view, but the foliage was to green to burn. A
deep moss bed covers the whole top on which we
reclned as on the softest couch You will Get
some conception of the wildness of this country
when tell you that it took u. nearly Ave hours
to find this mountain after We came in s,ght of
II, and within two miles in Il straight line from
its base. We had rowed six miles and landed
with It's blue top in Gear view. We thsn took
the direction with ou- picket compssses and
started OF. One who nad hsen to the summit,
before took the lead, but after circing round one
or two swsmps, and falling ',noonsciuusy out of
our way BY following v,la or two ridges that
seemed TO go in the i.recsion we wished, we
found ourselves who19 1t ,,as. Ridges and
swamps and dense !orcs every side Gem.
pietely ooshucted our view, nd we stumbled on
hour after hour and ascend.t two mountains be.
fore we could 6Sally gen another glimpse of the
one we were s:ter. W. had breaktas.ed about
slI IN the moFa,ng, and had left cur fishing rods
On the shore whore we expected to be again by