Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2 (of 2)

Martineau, Harriet · 1876

"That it was full of monsters who devoured canoes as well as men; that the devil stopped its passage, and sunk all those who ventured to approach the place where he stood; and that the river itself at last was swallowed up in the bottomless gulf of a tremendous whirlpool."--_Quarterly Review._ "Hic ver purpureum: varios hic flumina circum Fundit humus flores: hic candida populus antro Imminet, et lentæ texunt umbracula vites."…

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