with the manners and customs of the people;
had no faith in their capacity for business; found nothing to approve;
considered them vulgar, impertinent, irresponsible, and irreligious;
and finally was about to take his departure with these unfavorable
views, when he discovered, from some practical experience, that they
possessed, in addition to all these traits, wonderful shrewdness in
the art of swindling. New dodges that he had never dreamt of turned up
in the line of debits and credits; he was interested--delighted! A
familiar chord was touched. He retracted all he had said; formed the
most exalted opinion of the people; reluctantly returned to Glasgow,
and there made a fortune in the course of a few years! It is said that
he now swears by the eternal Yankee nation--the only oath he was ever
known to make use of--and expresses a desire to settle in the United
States, if he can find a suitable part of the country abounding in
fogs, rain, sleet, snow, and wind.

Somewhat akin to this is the affection with which a traveler in a
foreign land regards every mountain, tree, or flower that reminds him
of his own country. The most pleasant parts of my experiences of
mountain scenery are those that most resemble similar experiences at
home. Some suggestion or hint of a familiar scene has often caused me
to enjoy what would otherwise perhaps have attracted no particular
attention. I remember once, while traveling in Brazil, near the Falls
of Tejuca, some very pleasant scenes of early life came suddenly to
mind, without any thing that I could perceive at the moment to give
rise to such a train of thought. The aspect of the country was
different from any I had ever seen before; and it was not till I
discovered a bunch of violets close by my feet that I became aware
that it was a familiar perfume which had so mysteriously carried me
back to by-gone days. On another occasion, when at sea in the Indian
Ocean, after many dreary months of absence from home, I one day
accidentally found in the pocket of an old coat a paper of fine-cut
chewing tobacco. With what delight I grasped the glittering treasure
and applied it to my nose can only be conceived by a true lover of the
weed--I speak not of your voracious chewers, who masticate this
delectable narcotic as if it were food for the stomach instead of
nutriment for the soul, but of the genuine devotee, who can appreciate
the divinest essence, the rarest delicacies of tone and touch, the