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Show 1836- 1837I F/ agg's Far West 287 the haughty golden- rod, and all the splendid forms of the gentiana, commingling with the white and crimson eupa-torium, and the red spire of the liatris, everywhere bespangle the scene; while the trumpet- formed corolla of the bignonia radicans glitters [ 30] in the sunbeams, amid the luxuriant wreathing of ivy, from the tall capitals of the isolated trees. All the solidago species are in their glory, and every variety of the lobelia; and the blood- red sumach in the hollows and brakes, and the sagitlaria, or arrow- head, with its three- leaved calyx and its three white petals darting forth from the recesses of the dark herbage, and all the splendid forms of the aquatic plants, with their broad blossoms and their cool scroll- like leaves, lend a finished richness of hue to the landscape, which fails not well to harmonize with the rainbow glow of the distant forest. " - Such beauty, varying in the light Of gorgeous nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil's silent skill; But is the property of those alone Who have beheld it, noted it with care, And, in their minds, recorded it with lore." What wonder, then, that, amid a scene like this, where the summer reigned, and young autumn was beginning to anticipate its mellow glories, the traveller should in a measure have forgotten his vocation, and loitered lazily along his way! Portage des Sioux, Mo. |