. American scenery. voir.^ Before I slept that night, I addressed my treasured glove, under an envelope, to Mrs. Henry B , at Gurfields Hotel, and, at daybreak, was en route for home! When our friends had sufficiently complimented Mr. Brown-oker upon his affecting story, we were malicious enough tohint, that his adventure seemed to be gioundcd upon incidentswe had ourself once told; to which accusation he slyly pleadedguilty, but justified, first upon the ground of eminent and multi-plied precedent. Shakspeare, himself, you remember, wasfree enough in borrowing suggestions from others; and sec
. American scenery. voir.^ Before I slept that night, I addressed my treasured glove, under an envelope, to Mrs. Henry B , at Gurfields Hotel, and, at daybreak, was en route for home! When our friends had sufficiently complimented Mr. Brown-oker upon his affecting story, we were malicious enough tohint, that his adventure seemed to be gioundcd upon incidentswe had ourself once told; to which accusation he slyly pleadedguilty, but justified, first upon the ground of eminent and multi-plied precedent. Shakspeare, himself, you remember, wasfree enough in borrowing suggestions from others; and sec-ondly, he continued, the tale seemed to me deserving of amore permanent record than you had already given it, and that 234 THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. tliere could not be sucli better record tlian in your own consideration of Mr. Brownokers last flattering excuse,we forgave liim for stealing our thunder, and promised toenter the story on our minutes. And with this understandingthe meeting CHAPTER XII. The Gotliamite, said Mr, Deepredde, who for the first-time runs up from the thronged walks of Broadway, to thealmost unbroken wilderness of northern New York, is aston-ished that Nature should yet remain in such primitive solitudeand grandeur, so near the crowded marts of commerce andthe ceaseless hum of human life and enterprise. The moun-tain steeps seem strange to his Euss-pavement vision, and thebounding deer, or the screaming panther are droll, fellow-passengers for him to jostle. How is it, inquired Mr. Megilp, that so vast a territoryas the wilderness stretching from Champlain, westward alongall the shore of Ontario, should still remain unoccupied ? Chiefly, returned Mr. Deepredde, from the fact thatits rude mountainous character makes it unfit for very profit-able agricultural uses. Its rich mineral stores, however, havebeen turned to good account; especially the fine iron ore ofthat quarter distinctively known as the Adirondack. Here, veryexte
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