Note 298 — THE FOREST SANCTUARY.

“Sometimes their discourse was held in the deep shades of moss-grown forests, whose gloom and interlaced boughs first suggested that Gothic architecture beneath whose pointed arches, where they had studied and prayed, the parti-coloured windows shed a tinged light; scenes which the gleams of sunshine, penetrating the deep foliage, and flickering on the variegated turf below, might have recalled to their memory.”—Webster’s Oration on the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England.—See Hodgson’s Letters from North America, vol. ii. p. 305.