. The earth and its inhabitants .. . natural routes of its navigable streams, although its true character is not best seen from the banks of creeks or rivers. The traveller sailing up the Amazons sees little except a compact wall of forest trees interlaced with lianas, overtopped by a continuous mass of verdure, the stems rising on both banks like a line of pali- sades straight as reeds, enveloped in gloom at their base, expanding overhead to the light of the sun. From the boats in midstream no precise forms can be dis- tinguished in this rampart of vegetation ; to form some idea of the endles
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . natural routes of its navigable streams, although its true character is not best seen from the banks of creeks or rivers. The traveller sailing up the Amazons sees little except a compact wall of forest trees interlaced with lianas, overtopped by a continuous mass of verdure, the stems rising on both banks like a line of pali- sades straight as reeds, enveloped in gloom at their base, expanding overhead to the light of the sun. From the boats in midstream no precise forms can be dis- tinguished in this rampart of vegetation ; to form some idea of the endless variety of trees and shrubs the observer must penetrate into some of these sinuous igarapés
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