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crooked. We were obliged to lead our horses a great part of the way, till we came to the inhabitants, were we left them. There is no path up these summits; which are called bare mountains, on account of their being destitute of trees. They bear nothing but small shrubs. 

While we were gazing on the prospect, one of our company discovered a little girl ten years old, picking hurtle-berries, all alone, two miles from any house. She looked pitifully, as it was very chilly, and she was poorly clad. We bought all her berries, giving her twice as much as she asked for them; for which she appeared very grateful.

"Ascend this hill, whose cloudy point commands
"Her boundless empire over seas and lands,
"Far eastward case thine eye, from whence the sun,
"And orient science their bright course begun."
POPE
I am
Yours, sincerely,
RICHARD RAMBLER
Master John Journalist

LETTER XXIV
Answer to the foregoing.

New-Haven
DEAR RICHARD,
YOUR description of Mount Washington let me to contemplate the vast extent of the continent on which we live; the mighty mountains, the noble rivers, the immense lakes, and the deep forests, with which it abounds. To confine ourselves to the United States, let us for one moment turn our attention to some of these interesting objects. And here we find the Allegany mountains, stretching along, nearly parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, in a chain, at least, nine hundred miles in length.

The river Mississippi winds through a course of not less than three thousand miles, watering one of the most delightful countries in the world; which is thus beautifully described in that little romantic work, entitled "Atala, or the love and Constancy of Two Savages in the Desert." 

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