270 WOODLAND STREAMS. 



and exquisitely rich tints that Salvator Rosa 

 loved to paint. 



Woodland Clear pellucid streams and rivulets 

 are often met. with in the densest 

 forests; and during the dry season, the hunter 

 cannot do better than follow their course, as all 

 kinds of game abound in their immediate neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Their banks are often carpeted with mosses 

 and lichens of endless variety of tints, whilst 

 patches of gorgeous flowers are seen amongst 

 the luxuriant herbage, adding their rich colours, 

 as if to diversify the sombre appearance the 

 forest usually wears. In some places they run 

 through open glades ; in others they are com- 

 pletely arched over with dense foliage, forming 

 an impervious shade over head, the trees on both 

 sides being laced and bound together with an 

 infinity of wild vines and gigantic creepers, which 

 hang in festoons, or lie twisted in snake-like coils 

 upon the ground. 



Gushing through the arches of the forest, the 



