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NIMROD OF THE SEA; OR, 



too feeble to convey the wonders of nature's productiveness 

 to minds schooled under northern skies. Here are lofty 

 cliffs extending far as the eye can penetrate the misty at- 

 mosphere, their sides- deeply festooned with vines and dense 

 verdure of all kinds from base to summit. Long arcades 

 and cavernous arbors are formed so deep that the vivid tints 



TROPICAL GROWTHS. 



of foliage and flowers are lost in shadows, which verge on 

 the darkness of night. In these gVeen recesses I observed 

 one of those contrasts in which nature seems to delight. 

 Flocks of birds of a pure white plumage passed to and 

 fro in the dim light, as though they were blossoms of the 



