. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . an immense mountain with a towering quad-rangular pediment, whose lofty walls, rising perpendicularly for nearly2000 feet abov^e its slope, had shut ofi from the rest of the world,presumably from the earliest times, a tract 54 squai-e miles in extentand nearly 9000 feet above the sea-level. What might there be, wliatmight there not be on the summit ? Infoiniation gathered from theIndians in the surrounding villages only added to the interest. Themountain was, it was said, not only inaccessible, but je
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . an immense mountain with a towering quad-rangular pediment, whose lofty walls, rising perpendicularly for nearly2000 feet abov^e its slope, had shut ofi from the rest of the world,presumably from the earliest times, a tract 54 squai-e miles in extentand nearly 9000 feet above the sea-level. What might there be, wliatmight there not be on the summit ? Infoiniation gathered from theIndians in the surrounding villages only added to the interest. Themountain was, it was said, not only inaccessible, but jealously guardedby animals such as had been remarkable in the time of Sindbad theSailor. A huge bird there was that carried away the too-adventuroustraveller, or should he by luck escape the eagle eye, he still had to facea terrible serpent of dimensions which can only be imagined. Such was the information to be gained from the only people at allfamiliar with the place, but they lived in a country renowned for itswonders from its earliest discoverv. Twas not far south of this that o DQ CQ. h
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