Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . st, where the birds andinsects hide themselves, and you seem walking in a landwithout motion or sound, a wilderness of trees alone. Shortly above its mouth, the Paituna receives the littleIgarape dErerc, which flows down from a range of hills onthe north. These hills form a crescent; first there is Erere\ * Ardea candidissima. + Ardea alba. X Ardea exilis ? § Ardea Herodias. [ Platerhynchus. T Plotus anhinga. ** Anas moschata ? tt Anas autumnalis. \ % Palamedea cornuta. 350 BRAZIL. nearly a thousand feet high, with the long spur of Paiiunastretching off into
Brazil, the Amazons and the coast . st, where the birds andinsects hide themselves, and you seem walking in a landwithout motion or sound, a wilderness of trees alone. Shortly above its mouth, the Paituna receives the littleIgarape dErerc, which flows down from a range of hills onthe north. These hills form a crescent; first there is Erere\ * Ardea candidissima. + Ardea alba. X Ardea exilis ? § Ardea Herodias. [ Platerhynchus. T Plotus anhinga. ** Anas moschata ? tt Anas autumnalis. \ % Palamedea cornuta. 350 BRAZIL. nearly a thousand feet high, with the long spur of Paiiunastretching off into the lowland ; then Arochi, and the conicalpeak o{ MacJiirdy and the lower hills oi Paraizo, Sao Jiclido,Uriiciiry and Brutin, sweeping around by the Maecurii. Inthe other direction the curve can be traced still farther,through the low ridges of Uacarc and Airi to the rock-massof Tajuri; thence, probably, the circle:-;:is completed in other ridges, which wecannot distinguish here. The hills arethe remnants of a great dome of Serra d Erere, Irom tne Nortneast. the core of which has been washed away, leaving the plainof Erere in the middle ; all through the range we find sand-stone strata, dipping away from the plain. The Paituna is excessively crooked, and it varies greatlyin width. Often there is a narrow channel, through floodedmeadows on either side. The whole country is full of lakes,whereof the largest are no more than a mile across. Weturn off from the main channel at sunset, to seek a shorterpassage through these lakes ; the men push the boat throughthe grass with their long poles, for the land is so low herethat it is still covered with water, although it is late in Au- THE MAECURU. 35 I gust, and the flood season is passed ; these meadows are dryonly during two or three months of each year. The lakesand pools are covered with pontederias, and great, whitelilies. Once or twice we pass a Victoria regia ; the budsare just opening ; in the morning the flowers will b
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