. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon. in sheeting trousers, would run suddenlyinto the house for thick cloth clothing; in the mean time the hard hail-stones destroy his flowers and drive cattle from their pastures. Heavy storms frequently arise in the wet season, and blow violentlythrough the valley, from southeast. The hail beats so hard upon thepear trees that the delicate leaves are broken from the upper branches,and the blossoms are destroyed. The hot sun withers the ends of thelimbs, and they die, so that all the pear trees are stunted; and insteadof large, clear limbs, the under bra
. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon. in sheeting trousers, would run suddenlyinto the house for thick cloth clothing; in the mean time the hard hail-stones destroy his flowers and drive cattle from their pastures. Heavy storms frequently arise in the wet season, and blow violentlythrough the valley, from southeast. The hail beats so hard upon thepear trees that the delicate leaves are broken from the upper branches,and the blossoms are destroyed. The hot sun withers the ends of thelimbs, and they die, so that all the pear trees are stunted; and insteadof large, clear limbs, the under branches are sapped by numbers of suck-ers that shoot out and rob the fruit of its life. Hence it is that not onlypears but apples are very indifierent, but might be improved by trim-ming the trees, which the Indian does not seem to understand, and theCreole cares less for the tree than for the fruit. The willow grows up like a poplar ; its narrow leaves present such asmall surface to the hail or sun that they may be said to grow between the.
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