text:  Before him rose a realm of boundless extent but requiring frames of vigour and feelings undismayed by difficulty to traverse and subdue;--a horizon of hills and clouds where the gale blew fresh and the tempest rolled; where novel difficulties must be met at every step but still where if we trod at all we must ascend at every step where every clearing of the horizon must give us a new and more comprehensive prospect and where every struggle with the rudeness of the soil or the roughness of the elements must enhance the vigour of the nerve that encountered them