. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . -our feet; the long festoons of dead Spanish moss hanging from the high boughsof the red cypress, which refuses to nourish the pretty parasite; and the greatcypress knees, now white, now brown, looming up through the warm haze, andpeeping from nooks where the w^ater is transparent, seeming like veins in aquarry riven by lightning strokes. Vis
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . -our feet; the long festoons of dead Spanish moss hanging from the high boughsof the red cypress, which refuses to nourish the pretty parasite; and the greatcypress knees, now white, now brown, looming up through the warm haze, andpeeping from nooks where the w^ater is transparent, seeming like veins in aquarry riven by lightning strokes. Vista after vista of cypress-bordered avenues, with long lapses of water fillingthem, and little islands of mud and shme, thinly coated with a deceptive foliage,stretch before your vision; a yellowish ray, flashing across the surface of thewater, shows you where an alligator had shot forward to salute his friend or. SCENE IN A CYPRESS SWAMP NEAR THE MISSISSIPPI. UNIVERSITYOF IAxNORAMA. 71 attack his enemy ; and a strange mass hanging from some remotest bough, ifnarrowly inspected, proves an eagles nest, fashioned with a proper care fordefense. You see the white crane standing at some tree root, sullenly contemplatingthe yielding mass of decaying logs and falling vines; and the owl now and thencries from a high perch. The quaint grossbeak, the ugly heron, the dirty-blackbuzzard, the hideous water-goose, with his featherless body and satiric head,start up from their nooks as you enter; the water moccasin slides warily intothe slime; and if you see a sudden movement in the centre of a leaden-coloredmass, with a flash or two of white in it, }ou will do well to beware, for half adozen alligators may show themsehes at home there. You may come uponsome monarch-tree, prostrate and decayed within from end to end. Enteringit, and tapping carefully as you proceed to frighten away lurking snakes, youwill fin
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