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forwards with our gallant barque, over every obstructing wave: "Bend, bend, ye lithe and quivering spars, Point home my country's stripes and stars." It is evening, and yon setting sun, whose course we have tracked from the lonely anchorage in the Typa, down the China Seas, across the Indian Ocean, and over the wide expanse of the Atlantic, sinks slowly to night behind the mountains of our own broad and beautiful land. They gild the spire of an ancient village church, beneath which, in the days that are no more, our youthful ears drank in the kindly teachings of the gray-headed and venerable man, now forming one of the congregation that sleeps beneath the green sod surrounding it. They gild, with a golden tint, the attic windows of an old homestead, behind the small panes of which, there came to us once, more golden, but equally unsubstantial, visions, when our hearts, untravelled, sank to slumbers light and sweet. Ere its next setting, have hopes that the telegraph wires will convey thither the glad news of our safe return. We have taken a pilot on board; the chain cables are ranged forward on either gangway, bent to the anchors, ready for letting go; the changing color of the water denotes soundings, and every thing indicates we shall soon be in. Patient reader, my Cruise is completed. Its preparation has beguiled me of many a monotonous hour at sea. If either at sea or on shore it be, in this manner beneficial to you, I shall be satisfied. We must part. I bid you adieu, with a feeling towards you as if you had been my _compagnon du voyage_; and fervently wish that your Cruise of Life may be over placid seas, to pleasant ports, and always in company with kind and generous friends. THE END. Attractive Books of Travel, History and Biography. RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY GEO. P. PUTNAM, 10 PARK PLACE. _COX. A Buckeye Abroad._ 2nd ed. with illus., 12mo, $1 25. _IDA PFEIFFER. Journey to Iceland._ 12mo., clo., 40 cts. _REACH. Claret and Olives._ 12mo., cloth, 40 cts. _OLMSTED. Walks & Talks of an Amer. Farmer in Eng._ 40c. _BRYANT. Memorial of J. Fenimore Cooper._ 8vo., $1. ----_Letters of a Traveller._ New ed. 12mo., cloth, $1 25. _GODWIN. Hand-Book of Universal Biography._ 12mo., $2. _LAYARD. Nineveh and its Remains._ Plates. 2v. 8vo. $5. ----_Nineveh and its Remains._ Cheap unabridged ed. $1. _CELLINI. Memoirs._ Translated by T. Roscoe. 12mo., $1 25. _American Historical
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