. 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. t lHERIOA. jred -with wood as irantage that a tro- at mould in many natural to look for b it is rare to meet afersnce. If larger a sacrifice either to in size, they make 8, and bankrupt in journey on without )wering mora. Its I age, or dried by le toucan. Many a shot faintly strike leath, and owed his
. 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. t lHERIOA. jred -with wood as irantage that a tro- at mould in many natural to look for b it is rare to meet afersnce. If larger a sacrifice either to in size, they make 8, and bankrupt in journey on without )wering mora. Its I age, or dried by le toucan. Many a shot faintly strike leath, and owed his jxtending wilds are It would take a hardness and dura- )ss; the ducalabali, 1 letter-wood, vieing i world; the locust- iwa and olou trees, (re all to be met with I and the rock Saba, has been little ex- at these, and a vast y many new species, directions, through i of ci-devant Dutch FIRST JOCRNET. 6 On viewing the stately trees around him, the natu- ralist will observe many of them bearing leaves, and blossoms, and fruit not their own. The wUd fig-tree, as large as a 'common English «g-t^/ *"'' *PP^^*^®^' often rears itself from one of the thick branches at the top of the mora; and when its fruit is ripe, to it the birds resort for nourish- ment. It was to an ^ndigested seed, passing through the body of the bird which had perched on the mora, that the fig-tree first owed its elevated station there. The sap of the mora raised it into full bearing; but now, in its turn, it is doomed to contribute a portion of Its own sap and juices towards the growth of difierent species of vines, the seeds of which, also, the birds deposited on its branches. These soon vegetate, and bear fruit in great quantities; so, what with their usurpation of the resourcas of he fig-tree, and the fig. tree of the mora, the mora, unable to support a charge which nature never intended it should, languishes and dies under its burden; and then the fig-tree, and its usurping progeny of vines, receiving n
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