I looked upon it with that reverence with which everyone must regard a great feature of external nature.' So much for the emotions.

The tourists, one and all, remark upon the deep, brooding loneliness and desolation of the vast river.

Captain Basil Hall, who saw it at flood-stage, says-- 'Sometimes we passed along distances of twenty or thirty miles without seeing a single habitation.

An artist, in search of hints for a painting of the deluge, would here have found them in abundance.' The first shall be last, etc.

just two hundred years ago, the old original first and gallantest of all the foreign tourists, pioneer, head of the procession, ended his weary and tedious discovery-voyage down the solemn stretches of the great river--La Salle, whose name will last as long as the river itself shall last.