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fication which is derived from contemplating the features 

 which they severally impart to the landscape. 



But how is this gratification to be transferred to the 

 reader, who seeks from books that which the traveller ob- 

 tains from actual observation ? In no other way, clearly, 

 than by bringing before him in detail the distinct characters 

 of these several regions, in such a way as to conjure up in 

 his mind some kind of picture of the physiognomy of each. 



It is by no means easy indeed to define in words the 

 exact nature of the difference in this respect which exists 

 even between those countries which are felt to be most 

 contrasted in their general aspect ; as, for instance, between 

 the vegetation of the Tropics and of the Temperate Zone. 

 It is true that to that of the former we are in the habit of 

 applying the epithets of rick and luxuriant, terms doubt- 

 less which cannot but be regarded otherwise than appro- 

 priate ; and yet in the woodland scenery of colder climates, 

 as, for instance, in the great forests of Norway arid Lithuania, 

 Nature often displays a vigour, as well as an exuberance, 

 of creative power, which also in a certain sense stamp the 

 vegetation as rich and" luxuriant. 



In the warmer regions of the globe doubtless she loves 

 to exhibit herself in a greater variety of attire, and to dis- 



