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aglow, and tlie shadows of night chased from the valleys.
Darkness retires from the scene, and reveals the rolling
Rhine, the plains of France, and the hills of Spain. The
British Isles, too, are all in view, — the greensward of England,
and Scotia's rugged strand. Having lighted up the
Old World, westward it moves to seek a New. The waves
of the Atlantic are irradiated from pole to pole. Ten thousand
sails mirrored on the deep, or rocked by the tempest,
reflect the day. A New World comes in view, from the
shores of the Amazon to Labrador ; wide savannas, emerald
isles, populous cities, mighty rivers, and pine-clad hills, embrace
the day. On marches the morn over fertile plains and
dark primeval forests, over the banks of the Amazon, the
windings of the Mississippi, the network of railways, and
the waters of the great lakes, until beyond green savanna
and rolling prairie it glows on the snows of the Andes, and
the tops of the Rocky Mountains, where the condor trims his
plumage, and the grizzly bear skulks to his lair.
Down the
mountain-side it pours, until Chilian cities and Californian
sands are mirrored in the waters of the Pacific. Again its
march is o'er the deep, until, amid the beauteous isles where
day began, it resumes its glorious course of sunrise round
the world."
THE JOURNEY SUMMARIZED.
Travel is a school of trial ; and traversing Oriental lands
requires considerable pluck, perseverance, and determination.
Though passing through diverse experiences, though
subjected to strange mixtures of diet ; though often sweltering
in torrid climes ; though scattering Spiritualistic literature
among missionaries and mandarins, Brahmans and
Buddhists; though resorting to donkeys, camels, and elephants
in the line of locomotion, as well as sedan-chairs,
palanquins, railways, and ill-ventilated steamers, still we met
— thanks to God and ministering spirits—with no serious
disaster by land or sea. And, further, if we except custom-