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shores of the Eio San Francisco, and on those of the lower 

 part of the river of the Amazons ( 124 ). Some of these were 

 afterwards executed by himself as pictures, and others were 

 etched with much spirit. There are preserved in Denmark, 

 (in a gallery of the fine castle at Erederiksborg), some 

 large oil paintings of great merit belonging to the same 

 epoch by the painter Eckhout, who, in 164], was also 

 in Brazil with Prince Maurice. In these pictures, palms, 

 papaws (Carica papaya), bananas, and heliconias, are most 

 characteristically pourtrayed, as are likewise the native 

 inhabitants, birds of many-coloured plumage, and small 

 quadrupeds. 



These examples were followed by few artists of merit 

 until Cook's second voyage of circumnavigation: what 

 Hodge did for the western islands of the Pacific, and our 

 distinguished countryman, Eerdinand Bauer, for New Holland 

 and Van Diemen Island, has been since done in very recent 

 times in a much grander style, and with a more masterly 

 hand, for tropical America, by Moritz, Eugendas, Count 

 Clarac, Eerdinand Bellermann, and Edward Hildebrandt ; and 

 for many other parts of the earth by Heinrich von Kittlitz, 

 who accompanied the Eussian admiral, Lutke, on his voyage 

 of circumnavigation ( 125 ). 



He who with feelings alive to the beauties of nature in 

 mountain, river, or forest scenery, has himself wandered in 

 the torrid zone, and beheld the variety and luxuriance of the 

 vegetation, not merely on the well-cultivated coasK but also 

 on the declivities of the snow-crowned Andes the Hima- 

 laya or the Neilgherries of Mysore, or in the virgin forests 

 watered by the network of rivers between the Orinoco and 

 the Amazons, can feel, and he alone can feel, how almost 



