1'2 VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS. 



of date-trees tower above the landscape, conspicuous against 

 the azure of a sky, of which the clearness is unsullied 

 by any trace of vapour; plantains also, sugar-canes, and 

 Indian figs, with giant arums of the purest white, olives, 

 European fruit-trees, vineyards, and fields of corn, appear 

 in mingled beauty. Neither is the bread-fruit of Otaheite, 

 the cinnamon of the Molucca islands, the coffee of Arabia, 

 and the cocoa of America vast vegetable columns rising 

 majestically at least sixty feet in height wanting to this 

 delightful region. 



A belt of laurels, termed the abode of perpetual spring, 

 forms the second zone, or woody portion of Teneriffe. 

 Covered with verdant turf, and refreshed by streams of 

 water, this pleasant zone exhibits also lofty forests, varied 

 with different kinds of laurel, arborescent olives, iron-trees 

 distinguished by leaves of indescribable beauty, and myrtles 

 of various kinds, that rise to a commanding height and load 

 the air with fragrance. 



To this succeeds a third zone, varied with groups of 



