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SQUIRE PEDANT. 18

Noveltyville, Occident, June 6th, 1842.

BONNAIR SIR, – In my last epistolizing, I gave you a delineation of the concomitants of the inition of my migration to the occidental regions. I will now depaint to you the aspects of the first day of my demigration. The matutine part of that day was denoted by all the phases that possess puissance to impart satiety to the visual, auricular, and olfactory powers of our complex constitution. – The Solar orb, in his emanation from the oriental and margaric portals, cast luculent coruscations into the azure concavity – amplifying claritude occupated the welkin – human, and other entities sustained his calidity — and his candent ascension coerced the subterrene, seminal and radical deposits to pullulate and diffuse vernal viridity over nature's undulated surface. The sylvan regions were replete with the mellifluent and canorous cantations of the pennated tenants of the air – and exhilarating euphony seemed to possess almost entire ubiquity.– The herbaceous, gramineous and floriferous foliage having been humectated by nocturnal irrorations, emitted a most grateful redolence.

Under this buoyant, physical revivification, I set out from my father's bye, for the occident.

In consequence of the constant angustation of the media of sustaining vitality, as you have cognition, I never submitted to the gyves of a sponsal state, yet I am no misogamist. Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity. Cicurated and divested of his excessive curstness, he has become of great utility to me in