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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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eft behind him the Happy Valley of a delighted childhood, and wentforth to explore the world. I do not remember that any wise Imlac began that longjourney in his company, nor that he came to any Cairo where he spent two years inlearning the Universal Language, and where every man was happy. On the contrary, Iam afraid that Imlac, who stands for the lessons of experience, joined him only after longyears and innumerable scrapes had cost him dear ; and that the Cairo where all men arehappy is not set down on any chart by which he took his way. At least it was notbuilt between Boston and San Francisco, nor yet between that golden capital and PugetSound, nor did any spire or minaret thereof glitter against the perfect skies of Oregon,whither the wanderings of the new Rasselas led him. But, to drop metaphor, which, likeMalvolios cross-garterings, obstructs the blood, it was I who made the journey to Ore-gon, and I find that I cannot tell a comfortable story without saying so in the begin- 5
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MULTANOMAH FALLS. UP AND DOWN THE COLUMBIA. 35 ning, with a heart-felt regret that I am not Wallace, or that most charming traveller,Mr, John Hay, instead of myself. Perhaps oceans change their habits with time, like climates and individuals. It iseasier to believe that in 1520 the Pacific lapsed on purple islands a summer sea, thanto discredit the incorruptible Magalhaens, of Portuguese truth and directness, with wit-tingly bewraying the trust of unborn generations. In 1869, however, it had become themost deceitful of waters, with a horrible swell and pitch peculiar to itself, and caves fullof head-winds, like Atlantic gales grown up, out on their travels, and equal to any mis-chief. Nor is the Pacific content to have its grim way with you only while you areits lawful prey. For it has set a bar at the mouth of the Columbia, which for nine daysdefied the best seamanship of Captain Robert Gray, of the good bark Columbia Rediviva,who named the beautiful river in 1792. And it is only by

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