BEAUTIES, HARMONIES, AND SUBLIMITIES OF NATURE; WITH NOTES, COMMENTARIES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS. The sounding Cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tail Rock, The Mountain, and the deep and gloomy Wood, BY CHARLES BUCKE, AUTHOR OF "RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES," &c., &c. SELECTED AND REVISED BY THE REV. WILLIAM P. PAGE. NEW-YORK: HARPER AND BROTHERS, CLIFF-STREET. HARVARD Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. EDITOR'S PREFACE. This THE matter contained in the following pages has been taken from a work under the same name, in three volumes. larger work is somewhat miscellaneous in its character, treating of many particulars but remotely related to the general subject. These have been excluded from the present edition, and such portions only have been retained as appeared to be strictly appropriate to the title of the book. The author's manner of writing is not a little peculiar, being discursive, abrupt, and irregular at the same time, he abounds in interesting facts, in striking sentiments, and in beautiful imagery; in rich classical allusions, and in illustrations at once novel, and in a high degree impressive. Whoever reads this volume can hardly fail of deriving |