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Climbing vines, and parasitic plants, of untold splendor and boundless exuber- ance of growth, twine and interlace, and hang from the heights of the highest trees pennons of gold and purple, triumphant banners, which attest the solitary majesty of nature. A species of parasitic moss wreaths its abundant draperies from tree to tree, and hangs in pearly festoons, through which shine the scarlet berry and green leaves of the American holly. What the mountains of Switzerland were to the perse- cute...d Yaudois, this swampy belt has been to the American slave. The constant effort to recover from thence fugi- tives has led to the adoption, in these states, of a separate profession, unknown at this time in any other Christian land hunters, who train and keep dogs for the hunting of men, women, arid children. And yet, with all the convenience of this profession, the reclaiming of the fugitives from these fastnesses of nature has been a work of such expense arid difficulty, that the near proximity of the swamp has always been a considerable check on the otherwise absolute power of the overseer.
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