366 SPIRIT OF AMITY.
united by the ties of an active commerce, common lan guage, and kindred origin, was highly desirable. And to us, while strangers and sojourners in that foreign land, it was cheering to find such numbers ready to respond to the words of that remarkable writer, Car- lyle, " rejoicing greatly in the bridging of oceans, and in the near and nearer approach, which effectuates itself in these years, between the Englands, Old and New, the strapping daughter, and the honest old parent, glad and proud to see such offspring."
The mother and daughter! Ought they not to dwell together in unity, believing, as they do, in " one Lord, one faith, one baptism?" Let every traveller labor to that end ; and though the lines that he traces be as slight and soon effaced as the spider s web, let him throw them forth for good, and not for evil.
Clifton, with its bold, rocky scenery, is after my own heart. There, at the base of beetling cliffs, and through overhanging defiles, the Avon, which in so many other places glides with a serene classic flow, rushes in with tides of thirty-five feet. We saw many elegant man sions in commanding situations, and a suspension-bridge in progress, where workmen were crossing by rope and basket at a tremendously dizzy height.
Spot, where the sick recover, and the well Delighted roam, I bear thee on my heart, In all thy portraiture of cliff and shade, And the wild-footed Avon rushing in,
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