SO SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAEE&, 



To dwell aloft on life-sufficing trees, 



At once his dome, his robe, his food, and arms. 



Swell'd by a thousand streams, impetuous hnrl'd 



From all the roaring Andes, huge descends 



The mighty Orellana. Scarce the muse 



Dares stretch her wing o'er his enormous mass 



Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt 



The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse 



Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, 



Our floods are rills. With unabated force, 



In silent dignity they sweep along, 



And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds, 



And fruitful deserts, worlds of solitude, 



Where the sun shines, and seasons teem in vain, 



Unseen and unenjoy'd. Forsaking these, 



O'er peopled plains they far diffusive flow, 



And many a nation feed, and circle safe. 



In their soft bosorn, many a happy isle ; 



The seat of blameless Pan, yet undisturb'd 



By Christian crimes and Kurope's cruel sons. 



Thus pouring on they proudly seek the deep, 



Whose vanquish'd tide, recoiling from the shock, 



Yields to this liquid weight of half the globe; 



And Ocean trembles for his green domain. 



[Lab at, Lobo, Swinburne, Camden, Rai/nal, Carver, 

 Robertson, Condamine, Herrera."] 



SECTION III. 



CLASSICAL, OR PICTURESQUE SPRINGS, LAKEJ5, RIVERS, 

 AND CASCADES, DESCRIBED BY CLASSICAL AUTHORS. 



1. Source of the Scamandtf, the Mender of the present Jay. 



ON the eleventh of March, having collected our guides and 

 horses as upon the preceding day, we set out again from Evgrllar, 

 and proceeded up the mountain, to visit the Cataract, which con- 

 stitutes the source of the Mender, on the north-west side of Gar- 

 garus. Ascending by the side of its clear and impetuous torrent, 

 we readied, in an hour and a half, the lower boundary of the woody 

 region of the mountain. Here we saw a more entire chapel than 

 either of those described in our excursion the preceding day, situa- 

 ted upon an eminence above the river. Its form was quadrangular, 



