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that of which the bark existed at the Crystal Palace, had iem x height of 
his ambition among the sights of nature. To gratify this feelin made pur- 
posely a voyage to the Amazon, of which he has given an reris aie account 
in Galton's * Vaeation "Tourists, and one might s — that when at last he 
ec went thither for a very different purpose, and during a a period of id 
ivil commotion, Mp mentions his being forced = ker such objects ; and 
tries to acco irati icans 
that the — ofthe trees are of a very light grey, as well "indicated b Mr. 
George rs in some of his clever sketches; but the correctness of which 
I was moned to doubt until I had actually seen it in the landscape itself." 
After giving the history of the gold-mines of Chontales, and de- 
scribing its population, the author — :— 
* Tn these mountains a species of ca here by its Aztec n 
of Ule), vanilla, sarsaparilla, pan sia, ‘fa us stic ie, md e valine woods abound, 
any vege mo 
Europeans; and, as it occurs in these woods together with the common 
naturalized Cacao, it may have been cultivated when this district was more 
thickly inhabited by Indians than it is t present. 
“ The Chontales gold — appears to be a favourite haunt of rw with 
variegated le eaves. There ai ve aue fine e species of Costus (ne nese td = es es the. 
iiis i psi 
of Cissus, one with M ves on t PR, introduced a me ee zou h gar- 
dens); and several Marantacee and Aroidee. But the finest of Bui is the 
one I have named Cyrtodeira Chontalensis, a Gesneraceous plant. e leaves 
are purp 
gonia zecw peer aie with very dark green blotches. The ptio which appear 
in November and December, are lilac, and as large as a crown piece, with a 
