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Show 268 Early Western Trawls [ Vol 26 than that of the Missouri; and from the circumstance of having first been explored, it has given a name to the great river of the Western Valley which it will probably ever retain, whatever the right " Sed nan nostrum tantas cam-ponerelites" St. Charles, Ma. xxm " Say, ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown gray, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather- braving tower? " HUBSIS. " An honourable murder, if you will; For naught he did in hate, but all in honour." " The whole broad earth is beautiful To minds attuned aright" ROBT. DAL* OWEN. THE view of St Charles from the opposite hank of the Missouri is a fine one. The turbid stream rolls along the village nearly parallel with the interval upon which it is situated. A long line of neat edifices, chiefly of brick, with a few ruinous old structures of logs and plastering, relics of French or Spanish taste and domination, extend along the shore; beyond these, a range of bluffs rear themselves proudly above the village, crowned with their academic hall and a neat stone church, its spire surmounted by the cross. Between these structures, upon a spot somewhat more elevated, appears the basement section of " a stern round tower of former days, 19 now a ruin; and, though a very peaceable [ 10] pile of limestone and mortar, well- fitted in distant view to conjure up a host of imaginings: like Shenstone's Ruined Abbey, forsooth, " Pride of andent days; Now hut of use to grace a rural scene, Or hound our vistas." |