. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. titude as a thinfleece on the aerial summit, and descending as he sinks into theAvestern horizon in dense volumes to the skirts of the town,over which it remains suspended during the whole night. Asthe next rising sun gradually dissipates this heavy vapour, asuccession of objects, full at least of novelty to the stranger,andof great variety, is unfolded to the eye. On the sweeping shoreof a spacious baj, whose
. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. titude as a thinfleece on the aerial summit, and descending as he sinks into theAvestern horizon in dense volumes to the skirts of the town,over which it remains suspended during the whole night. Asthe next rising sun gradually dissipates this heavy vapour, asuccession of objects, full at least of novelty to the stranger,andof great variety, is unfolded to the eye. On the sweeping shoreof a spacious baj, whose extreme points are high and ruggedvolcanic rocks, is situated the town of Funchal, the white build-ings of which, contrasted with the surrounding rocks of blacklava, and the lively verdure of the plantations on the brow of themountain, convey neither an unpleasing nor an unpicturesqueeffect. Interspersed among these plantations are numerousdelightful villas, churches, chapels, and convents, various inpoint of form and situation, and mounting one above theother on the steep acclivity, till they are lost in the obscurityof the hanging cloud. The highest visible object that parti-7. MADEIRA. 5 cularly catches the eje is the convent of Nossa Senhora doMonte, our Lachj of the Mountain, which, being surrounded bygardens and groves and avenues of chesnut-trees, appearsas if buried in the midst of a forest. The wide open baywith the shipping at anchor, the numerous craft on the beach,the Illieo or Loo rock, a huge insulated mass of black lava,surmounted with batteries, constitute a foreground that iswell suited to the grandeur of the scenery on shore. But theannexed view of that part of the island immediately over thetown, reduced from a drawing taken by Mr. Daniell, onboard a ship at anchor in the bay, will recal to the recollec-tion of those, who may have viewed it from the same situation,its general features as they appear from thence, better thanany description which I can pretend
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