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A boundless vision grows upon us: an untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure; mountains silent in primeval sleep; rivers, lakes, and glimmering pools; wilderness oceans mingling with the sky. Plumed helmets gleam in the shade of its forests, priestly vestments in its dens and fastnesses of ancient barbarism. Men steeped in antique learning, pale with the close breath of the cloister, here spend the noon and evening of their lives, rule savage hordes with a mild parental sway, and stand serene before the direst shapes of death. |
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