. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. f 'wm^ys'r*%mm AMERICA. most of them lying I last days, seemB con- [ silence. There was e seen, nor even the sen as silent as mid- red as a monument, , and a few Tultures hown that it was not ire. There were no about one-fourth the t bit cruelly, and was mosquito on the sea- luntry of the Arrow- issed
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. for cabinets of natural history. Voyages and travels; Zoology; Voyages; Zoologie. f 'wm^ys'r*%mm AMERICA. most of them lying I last days, seemB con- [ silence. There was e seen, nor even the sen as silent as mid- red as a monument, , and a few Tultures hown that it was not ire. There were no about one-fourth the t bit cruelly, and was mosquito on the sea- luntry of the Arrow- issed through a patch bion, there you found at is not the proper reach the Portuguese o much to the west- lative. The ground ettlement (which was was overflowed; and ard, you were obliged stem hills, quite out place affords, makes you have spent in at descriptivia powers ion these people have nd high, and full of. FIRST JOUBNET. 87 immense rocks. The huts are not all in one place, but dispersed wherever they have found a place level enough for a lodgement Before you ascend the hill, you see at intervals an acre or two of wood, then an open space, with a few huts on it; then wood again, and then an open space, and so on; till the inter- vening of the western hills, higher and steeper still, and crowded with trees of the loveliest shades, closes the enchanting scene. ' immenn At the base of this hill stretches an im- * mense plain, which appears to the eye. on this elevated spot, as level as a bowling-green. The mountains on the other side are piled one upon the other in romantic forms, and gradually retire, till they are undiscemible from the clouds in which they are involved. To the south-south-west this far-extending plain is lost in the horizon. The trees on it, which look like islands on the ocean, add greatly to the beauty of the landscape; while the rivulet's course is marked out by the seta-trees which follow its meanders. Not being able to pursue the direct course from hence t
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