. 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. 28 WAXDKRINOS IN SOUTH AMRFIICA. range, where it begins to full off grmlnally to the Honth. They look like two ancient stately towers of sonio Gothic potentate, roaring their heads aWo the sur- rounding trees. What with their situation their shape together, they strike the beholder
. 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. 28 WAXDKRINOS IN SOUTH AMRFIICA. range, where it begins to full off grmlnally to the Honth. They look like two ancient stately towers of sonio Gothic potentate, roaring their heads aWo the sur- rounding trees. What with their situation their shape together, they strike the beholder with an idea of grandeur wliich he will never forgot Ho may travel far and near, and see nothing like them On looking at them through a glass, the summit of the southern one appeared crowned with bushes. ITie one to the north was .luite bare. Tho Indians have it trbm their ancestors, that they are the abode of an evil genius, and they pass in the river below with a reve- rential awe. River A o ^" ^^^^^ *"^^" ^*'"" ^'''"" '"''"^^ Stupen- ni-pJuA. '"'"â do"8 sons of the hill, you leave the Essequibo, and enter the river Apoura-poura, which falls into It from the south. The Apoura-poura is nearly one-third the size of the Demerara at Stabroelc For two days you see nothing but level ground, richly clothed in timber. You leave the Siparouni to the right hand, and on the third day come to a little hUl. The Indians have cleared . Uut an acre of ground on it and erected a temporary shed. If it be not intended for provision ground alone, perhaps the next white man who travels through these remote wilds wUl find an Indian settlement here. Two days after leaving this, you get to a rising ground on the western bank, where stands a single hut; and about half a mile in the forest there are a few more; some of them square, and some round, with spiral roots. Here the fish called Pacou is veiy plentiful: it is .. ^^iaFilr^
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