Excerpt from Beliefs of the Unbelievers, and Other Discourses
In a Swedenborgian book, written thirty years ago, on the Inspiration of the Bible, I find a description of a "horrid desart" occupying hundreds of square miles of the territory that lies between the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains. In this "frightful district," says the writer, "vegetation is mostly confined to tufts of withered grass, prickly pears, and those succulent and saline plants which can derive subsistence out of the most arid, sandy, and sterile soils. A species of cactus, known as the Cactus ferox, reigns sole monarch over myriads of acres of these desolate plains. Another species, called the Cactus cylindricus, grows singly and forms a cluster by itself, increasing to such a size that, seen from a distance, it is frequently mistaken for a bison.
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