Home authors and home artists; or, American scenery, art, and literature . to the village at our feet, wereseated on the, lake-shore; three more were seen clinging to the hill-sides, grouped aboul sites where feudal castles had 31 1 in former time-; another appeared on tin- bank of the river, at a point longused as a ford, and two more occupied different positions in the graj spire-, or low church towers, were seen rising above 0of these hamlets. On the farthest hill to the northward, and fromit- highest point, the ruin-of an ancient watchtower rose above thewood. (.»4 A DISSOLVI
Home authors and home artists; or, American scenery, art, and literature . to the village at our feet, wereseated on the, lake-shore; three more were seen clinging to the hill-sides, grouped aboul sites where feudal castles had 31 1 in former time-; another appeared on tin- bank of the river, at a point longused as a ford, and two more occupied different positions in the graj spire-, or low church towers, were seen rising above 0of these hamlets. On the farthest hill to the northward, and fromit- highest point, the ruin-of an ancient watchtower rose above thewood. (.»4 A DISSOLVING VIEW. I could cany my observations no further. The yellow flowers ofthe wych-hazel in my hand had attracted a roving bee, bent appa-rently on improving these List warm days, and harvesting the lastdrops of honey; the little creature had crept close to a finger, and asharp sting soon recalled my wandering attention, and caused me todid]) the branch and the bee together. The magic wych-hazel thrownaside, the spell was over; the country had resumed its THE SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA BY B A Y A i: D T A 1TLOB. There is, perhaps, ao State in the Union which presents a greatervariety of landscape than Pennsylvania. This variety does no1 consislonly in the outward configuration of her surface — in the change frommountain to plain, from sterile grandeur to the rich monotony of alevel alluvial region — but also in climate, atmosphere, and all thosefiner influences which arc as the soul to the material forms of landscapes, whatever may lie their features, have a distinct indi-viduality, and express a sentimenl of their own. As in .Man, there isno reproduction of the same form or the same peculiar spirit, thoughin Kelts and broad ranges of scenery—often in entire countriesNature hear- some general distinguishing stamp wherebj the smalleslof her picture- may be recognized. It would Ke difficult to presenl any single landscape as being espe-cially Pennsyl
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