. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . CHAPTEE XXI. THE HEN he has quitted Fort Leavenworth, on theextreme frontier of the State of Illinois, at theconfluence of the Missouri, and ascended north-ward the river Arkansas, the traveller soonenters upon those great verdurous savannahs, those Saharasfull of freshness, those undulating prairies, of which nodescription can give a very complete or satisfactory prairies—as in the United States they are called—are no immense smooth plains, clothed
. The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil . CHAPTEE XXI. THE HEN he has quitted Fort Leavenworth, on theextreme frontier of the State of Illinois, at theconfluence of the Missouri, and ascended north-ward the river Arkansas, the traveller soonenters upon those great verdurous savannahs, those Saharasfull of freshness, those undulating prairies, of which nodescription can give a very complete or satisfactory prairies—as in the United States they are called—are no immense smooth plains, clothed with trefoil,lucerne, and similar herbage; but undulating fields, fur-rowed by numerous brooks, on whose borders flourish dwarfcotton-trees, the buffalo-grass—an herb with an elongatedstem, which furnishes the ruminants of these wilds with THE WESTERN PRAIRIES. 347 nourishment—and other plants, whose blue, and yellow,and red, and white flowers enamel the uncultivated oceans of verdure, whose grassy growth is some-times five feet high, roll in the wind like a billowy sea. Nothing is more various, nothing more interesting, thanth
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