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LETTERS TO ment, became ample and rapid ,and lachrymations and boations became ubiquitous or omnipresential. The synchysis, durdum, and quassation of the synaxis, were, according to my standard of religious debonnairity, very malapropos, and ergo, I made my exit.

Subsequent to this, I enjoyed commensation with the concionator at a fete, where he evinced himself a sapient deipnosophist and indicated his undivested thralldom to gastronomy.

Yours, in good foy,

LORENZO ALTISONANT.

Glacialville, December feriation, 1843.

VERACIOUS SIR, – Having now peregrinated the ponent regions, I am prepared to impart to you its chorography. The superficies of this bosky domain possesses no altigrade terrene and lapideous montanic elevations; and consequently only a few exiguous dingles. It is not an auriferous region as some of the austral and remote austrine occidental regions of our republican adunation; but it is ferriferous, carboniferous, plumbiferous and cupriferous.

The boscage consists of arborescent growth of an immane arduity, totally devoid of aduncity and knags, furnishing an umbrosity impervious to solar calidity, and imparting aliture to myriads of venēne and umbelliferous, as well as, corymbiferous and fructiferous plants. Many of the trees are glandiferous, nuciferous, pruniferous and sacchariferous.

The septentrional section of Ind. abounds in lagoons, mēres, and immane multiflorous and scaturiginous leas, furnishing delectable leasоw.