80 
can 
be 
invented, 
there 
must 
be 
objects 
beloved 
and 
admired, 
associated 
with 
things 
in 
nature 
a local habitation 
endowed with 
and a name. 
In 
America, 
therefore, 
although 
there 
has 
been 
lack 
of 
clever 
versiflers, 
HOT 
of 
HIGH 
who 
have 
respectabl y 
echoed 
the 
ideas 
current 
in 
the 
old 
the 
country has produced nothing of 
anY 
value descriptive of 
the peculiar associations con- 
nected 
with 
its 
scenery. 
Among 
SOIIIG 
of 
the 
Indian 
tribes 
H 
vein 
of 
original 
Poet ry 
has, 
but the riches of the mine 
deed, been discovered; 
are 
unexplored, 
and 
the 
charge 
of 
sterility 
of 
fancy, 
which 
is 
.made 
by the 
Europeans 
against 
the 
citizens 
of 
the 
United 
States, 
still 
remains 
unrefuted. 
Since the period, 
however, 
to which 
these 
memoirs 
chieiiy refer, 
events 
of 
great 
portance 
have 
occurred, 
and 
the 
recollections 
connected 
with 
them, 
I10 
doubt, 
tend 
to 
imbue 
the American 
climate with 
the 
elements 
P09- 
of 
tical thought ; 
but 
they are of 
too 
recent 
OCCII I'- 
PEHCC 
for 
the 
purposes 
either 
of 
the 
epic 
OT 
the 
tragic 
IIIIJSB. 
The 
facts 
of 
history 
in 
America 
too much in detail 
Aare still seen 
for 
the 
imagina- 
tion 
to 
combine 
them 
with 
her 
OWl'l 
creation. 
The fields of 
battle 
are 
almost 
too 
fresh 
fof 
the