Excerpt from A New Nation There are two seasons of the year when the hilly Shores of the Lower Potomac River become an earthly paradise, Wherein, till summer heats return to coax him from his lair, the serpent of malaria lies torpid and restrained from active demonstration. One of them is the late autumn, after frost has set the woods afire and filled the pale red globes of the tricksy persimmon with luscious sweetness. Then the Sleepy sun lingers upon the landscape, loath to leave, and life is a delight. The other time of joyance is in early Spring, when the swelling Slopes on each Side the broad silver river are first reclad in verdure. Who, that has ever known it, can forget the jubilee of Nature in Virginia's woods in April the self assertion of every growing thing in whose green veins the sap is running; the riotous blos soming of trees and Shrubs close of kin to Virginia's soil, and nurtured accordingly by the Virginian climate; the singing of innumerable birds? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.