A DAY IN 



THE WOODS OF JAMAICA. 



THE FORDS OF PARADISE IUVEK.* 



IT is now nearly sixteen years since I came to the end 

 of that delightful sojourn in the forests of Jamaica, 

 which passed so swiftly, and which now seems like a 

 midsummer night's dream ; but often and often I say 



* From a sketch of my own. The singular hillock-like objects 

 are bushes completely covered with the foliage of a species of Con- 

 volvulus, as if with a mat. 



