OBSERVATION VS. DESCRIPTION. m being called an animal to changing my present Habits. An entire life so spent would be wretchedly aimless, but a few months are in truth " sore labor's bath " to every wrung heart and overworked brain.

I could say much more, but it requires no little effort to write three hours in a cabin, when the palms are rustling their tops outside, the larks singing in the meadows, and the odor of mimosa flowers breathing through the windows. To travel and write, is like inhaling and exhaling one's breath at the same moment. You take in impressions at every pore of the mind, and the process is so pleasant, that you sweat them out again most reluctantly. Lest I should overtake the remedy with the disease, and make to-day Labor, which should he Rest, 1 shall throw down the pen, and mount yonder donkey, which stands patiently on the bank, waiting to carry me to Siout once more, before starting for Thebe".