ORIGINAL PAPERS. VI. THE SINGLE COMBAT. BY HON. JUDGE HALL, OHIO, SAGA OF THE SKELETON IN ARMOR. By H. W. LONGFELLOW, XV. THE CRAYON PAPERS. BY WASHINGTON IRVING, XVI. BROEK, THE DUTCH PARADISE. BY GEOFFREY CRAYON, THE AMERICAN IN LONDON. BY THE AMERICAN IN PARIS,' XIX. AN EVENING REVERIE. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Esq., XX. THE CAVE OF CAROUSSIS: A NARRATIVE OF Scio, XXI. THE FALL OF THE OAK. BY GEORGE HILL, Esq., 2. NEW-YORK ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND: THE BLIND GIRL, 1. KEIGHTLEY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND: HALE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 2. THE MAMMOTH SHEETS.' 3. THE ALBION' LITERARY JOURNAL. 4. THE 'DRAMATIC MERCURY. 5. CONSTANCE, OR THE MERCHANT'S DAUGHter.' 10. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, 1. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. 2. ANONYMOUS LITERARY ADVISERS. 3. PAPERS ON FILE AND AWAITING EXAMINATION. 4. THE BROTHERS' DUEL:' IMAGINARY It was a glorious evening, toward the middle of September, when we ascended the hill whose summit is crowned by the Chateau of Saint Cloud. The sun was pouring its setting rays over the beautiful valley of the Seine, and as the whole region stretched before us to the east, the flood of light was sent back, exhibiting all the prominent objects in bold relief, as they are represented in the pictures of Claude Lorraine. We stopped to gaze upon this landscape, no longer wondering that a residence which commanded such a prospect had long been a favorite habitation of Napoleon, as it now was of Louis Philippe. A broad fertile valley was before us, bounded in the distance by the elevated plateau through which the river has worn itself a passage, and where it winds from side to side, as if to adorn as well as to fertilize the domain it has conquered. This father of the French rivers, however great his renown in Europe, would form but a feeble tributary to the magnificent streams which our country pours into the ocean. Nature has indeed spread out her works upon a more extensive scale in our favored regions, than in this older portion of the human heritage. Our lakes and rivers, plains, vallies, and forests, are impressed with a character of vastness, if I may coin an abstract term, which is itself one of the attributes of true sublimity, and which produces upon the traveller who visits them, emotions which no after events in life can efface. never felt more profoundly the weakness of man and the power of God, than when seated in a frail birch canoe, with its ribs of cedar, and its covering of bark, descending the Mississippi in the night, and approaching the junction of this mighty river with the mightier Mis souri. I These little Indian boats are admirably calculated for the manners of our aborigines, and of the Canadian voyageurs, their co-tenants of the western forests, and often their co-descendants from the same stock, and for the various lines of internal communication which nature has so bountifully provided for the trans-Alleghany regions. Driven by the paddle and by the wind, with great ease and velocity, light, and apparently fragile, they are managed with skill, and safely ride over the waves, which they seem hardly to touch; and when they |