"I floated along under the spell of enchantment, as if I had been transported to an heroic age, and breathed an atmosphere of chivalry.Soon after, I went to see a panorama of the Mississippi, and as I worked my way up the river in the light of today, and saw the steamboats wooding up, counted the rising cities, gazed on the fresh ruins of Nauvoo, beheld the Indians moving west across the stream,..."

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