Sketch Fourth A Pisgah View From the Rock

Sketch Fourth
A Pisgah View From the Rock

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"That done, he leads him to the highest mount,

From whence, far off he unto him did show:"—

IF YOU SEEK TO ASCEND Rock Rodondo, take the following prescription. Go three voyages round the world as a main-royal-man of the tallest frigate that floats; then serve a year or two apprenticeship to the guides who conduct strangers up the Peak of Teneriffe; and as many more respectively to a rope-dancer, an Indian juggler, and a chamois. This done, come and be rewarded by the view from our tower. How we get there, we alone know. If we sought to tell others, what the wiser were they? Suffice it that here at the summit you and I stand. Does any balloonist, does the outlook man in the moon, take a broader view of space? Much thus, one fancies, look……