GEORGE BALCOMBE. A NOVEL. Tucker, Nathaniel Bev IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. Mitten by Mécanishing Miginin NEW-YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET. 1 8 3 6. [Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by HARPER & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.] GEORGE BALCOMBE. CHAPTER I. ""Tis night; and from the empyrean the bright moon Piercing, like glimpses of eternity, The vaults blue depths, as if to sound the abyss AT length, issuing from the wood, I entered a prairie, more beautiful than any I had yet seen. The surface, gently undulating, presented innumerable swells, on which the eye might rest with pleasure. Many of these were capped with clumps and groves of trees, thus interrupting the dull uniformity which generally wearies the traveller in these vast expanses. I gazed around for a moment with delight; but soon found leisure to observe that my road had become alarmingly indistinct. It is easy, indeed, to follow the faintest trace through a prairie. The beaten track, however narrow, wears a peculiar aspect, which makes 378355 |