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spring up by thousands during the rains, but for 

 the most part pine and die, being deprived of 

 light and heat. 



In some places the forest becomes more open, 

 dense woods alternating with beautiful verdant 

 glades, and their limits are so well defined, that 

 the scene much resembles the ornamental planta- 

 tions of an English park; indeed, so much does 

 this similitude strike the Anglo-Saxon stranger, 

 the first time it meets his eye, that he looks 

 around the verdant lawns, shrubberies of ever- 

 green, stately avenues, and embowering groves, 

 fully expecting to see some ancestral manorial 

 mansion, or gray embattled pile, to diversify the 

 landscape, so strongly does it remind him of the 

 home he has left perhaps for ever. 



Every turn in the forest reveals some change. 

 In some places fern flowers and grasses creep fan- 

 tastically tangled on the sides of darkly frowning 

 crags, and lichen-covered precipices raise their 

 heads above the wave-like looking sea of forest, 

 and present a scene with that depth of colouring 



