. Young folks library . al distance between thehorizon and the suspended object. There was a con-stant suspension, without inversion. The Httle currentsof air that swept the surface of the soil had so variablea temperature that, in a drove of wild oxen, one part appeared with thelegs raised above thesurface of the ground,while the other rest-ed on it. The aerial dis-tance was, according tothe distance of the animal,from 3 to 4. Wheretufts of the moriche palmwere found growing inlong ranges, the extremitiesof these green rows weresuspended like the capeswhich were, for so long atime, the subjec
. Young folks library . al distance between thehorizon and the suspended object. There was a con-stant suspension, without inversion. The Httle currentsof air that swept the surface of the soil had so variablea temperature that, in a drove of wild oxen, one part appeared with thelegs raised above thesurface of the ground,while the other rest-ed on it. The aerial dis-tance was, according tothe distance of the animal,from 3 to 4. Wheretufts of the moriche palmwere found growing inlong ranges, the extremitiesof these green rows weresuspended like the capeswhich were, for so long atime, the subject of my observa-fc-^^^^^^^^^^^^ tions at Cumana. A well-in- r ?— ^~ formed person assured us, that he had seen, between Calabozoand Uritucu, the image of ananimal inverted, without there being any direct made a similar observation in Arabia. Weseveral times thought we saw on the horizon the figuresof tumuli and towers, which disappeared at intervals,without our being able to discern the real shape of the. Tree-Dwellers of theOrinoco. On the Llanos 281 objects. They were perhaps hillocks, or small emi-nences, situated beyond the ordinary visual horizon. Ineed not mention those tracts destitute of vegetation,which appear hke large lakes with an undulating sur-face. This phenomenon, observed in very remote times,has occasioned the mirage to receive in Sanscrit theexpressive name of desire of the antelope. We admirethe frequent allusions in the Indian, Persian, andArabic poets, to the magical effects of terrestrial refrac-tion. It was scarcely known to the Greeks and Ro^mans. Proud of the riches of their soil, and the mildtemperature of the air, they would have felt no envyof this poetry of the desert. It had its birth in Asia;and the oriental poets found its source in the nature ofthe country they inhabited. They were inspired withthe aspect of those vast solitudes, interposed like armsof the sea or gulfs, between lands which nature hadadorned with her most luxuria
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