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Show 84 hemmed in 00 all sides by tho Tngbconic Mountains. nero one finds almost perfect isolation. Even in summer there is only a n1ail once a week, and during tbo winter months tho communication with tho adjoining towns, situated in tho Valley of the Housatonic, must bo frequently wholly cut off for even longer periods. Towards the cast rises tbe Dome,- the faint blue outline of which on the horizon forms a prominent point of interest, as the coach from Pittsfield first reaches the crown of the bill nt Lenox, and you see spread out before you the beautiful Stoekbridgo V alloy. To tho west aro BiBb Bish Falls. Tho road to the bend of tho Falls follows the winding of tho brook. If ever any scene in natw·e could teach man to love his follow-man it would be that which here is ex· bibited. The brook rushes along sparkling and dancing in tho sunlight, while on one side the mountnin rises in some places almost pcrpondicu· larly, wooded to the top, rendered beautiful itself, and making other things so, by constant succession LIDEUTY, SECTIO~AL. SLAV.I-:Rv, NATIONAL. 85 of l.i ght and shade. The Falls present 1 larJcty of beauty H a most every . ere tho water . h -tl1Cte it leaps fift . IUS ca rapidly cy or s•xty feet rocks with spray . and th . ' covering the ' en tt rests cal d n.s crystal li"ar f: m an clear ' ar above your h d hanging tho water' is the E I . ca ' and ovcr- 1 ag o nest In such a pace as this, we feel inclined with ~d on all things to u t't . h am, to call • t 1 e WJt us in 'o d . mstinct with lifo a d I J y an prmse, so .And n ove do all things seem. yet, even in this lovel . found one of th y regton, may be e unhappy race though loved of G d ' cursed of man, 0 · Even this b of nature where th cnutiful temple e soul is lifted sordid selfishness f up nbovo the o every dny li6 t possible life h e, o tho purer ' ' w ere all things animat . ' mate unite in le d' e and manj-a mg our thought plishmcnt of nob! s to the aceom-e ends oven th. sacred. Even h ' ts place is not ere the national la Slavery shall . t w declares that CXIS ' and that it d fact, is UITain o . oes not so exist in ~ wmg to the 5 t' which exists i th ec Jonallo'\"C of liberty, ItS esc mountain regions· It was |
