Remarks, Made on a Short Tour

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the place, and scarcely a glimpse of the remote scenery. Indeed, the full illustration of the beauties of this mountain, would require a port folio of views, and would form a fine subject for the pencil of a master. As the beauty and grandeur of this place depend principally upon certain general facts relative to the geological structure and consequent scenery of the middle region of Connecticut, it may not be amiss to sketch in a very general way what I believe has been nowhere sketched at all. Scenery and Geology of the Middle Region of Connecticut. Among the objects which most powerfully arrest the attention of a traveller, natural scenery generally occupies a distinguished place. No person, however heedless in observation, or torpid in feeling, can fail to experience some degree of interest in the features drawn upon the face of the earth by the hand of the Almighty, or to preserve some lecollections of them. Even those whose views vise not above their immediate occupations, and who contemplate the earth only as a place on which 'hey may live and act, and as a reservoir from whichemolument may flow, are still attentive to deep sands and rocky defiles, to dangerous bogs and marshes, and to mountain chains, when they defeat or enhance the toils of cultivation, or oppose formidable obstacles to travelling. National character often receives its peculiar cast from natural scenery. The hardy mountaineer, at least in the early stages of society, instinctively despises and easily subdues the soft inhabitant of rich alluvial plains; and the peculiar characteristics of the Scotch Highlander, of the Bedouin Arab, and of the Hindu, are derived as much from the mountains, the sandy deserts, and the luxuriant vallies and plains, which they respectively inhabit, as from other ...