Life and nature under the tropics: or, Sketches of travels among the Andes, and on the Orinoco, Rio Negro, and Amazons . i^f ;;. SITE OF CITY. 11 Trees of magnificent growth, festooned -with hangingmoss and pendant vines, their trunks and giant limbscovered with parasitic plants of rich, brilliant hues, standalone in their majestic grandeur, or, by their united crownsof fadeless green, bedecked with flowers of rare delicacyand beauty, form picturesque bowers and arcades. Tow-ering and crested palms, with their plumes wafted by thebreezes, adorn alike the forest and the plain with their
Life and nature under the tropics: or, Sketches of travels among the Andes, and on the Orinoco, Rio Negro, and Amazons . i^f ;;. SITE OF CITY. 11 Trees of magnificent growth, festooned -with hangingmoss and pendant vines, their trunks and giant limbscovered with parasitic plants of rich, brilliant hues, standalone in their majestic grandeur, or, by their united crownsof fadeless green, bedecked with flowers of rare delicacyand beauty, form picturesque bowers and arcades. Tow-ering and crested palms, with their plumes wafted by thebreezes, adorn alike the forest and the plain with theirstately, graceful foi-ms. Giant vegetation, in that varietyand beauty elsewhere imknown, springs up on every side,while amid and beneath all— There spring the hving herbs, pi-ofusely wild,Oer all the deep-green earth, beyond the powerOf botanists to number up their tribe. Enclosing this beautiful valley, are lofty, rugged, andbarren mountain-cliffs, which break the stiength of theequinoctial winds, and shut out the burning atmosphereof the jDlain on the coast. The contrast presented bythese barren ranges, and the stern, forbiddi
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