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sides of the mountain being separated in most instances by a narrow skirt of meadow land or "bottom", these green hills reflected in the water of the river either by moonlight or day - and sinking away into the faintest blues of the distance, the clear sky above the glassy water beneath, a pleasant breeze, good company animated by mutual courtesy and prospect of a happy termination to our journey beget contentment, and its soothing influence acts upon us irresistibly the joke is passed, information is communicated, friends made and the sordid cares of commerce and strife of existence forgotten in the contemplation of the beautiful, the true, the natural. —On the deck below the same spirit prevails tho' in a ruder development, the boatmen and stokers shout their songs, the fiddle scrapes a merry jig, a "ho-down" follows and tho' without a cent in their pockets, "O'er all the ills of life victorious" they thus occasionally vary their labours by giving rein to their animal spirits, no doubt happier than many who