"Among the scenes which are deeply impressed ou my mind, none exceed in 

 sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man ; whether those of 

 Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Terra del Fuego, 

 where Death and Decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied produc- 

 tions of the God of Nature : no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and 

 not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body."— Darwin's 

 Journal, p. 503. 



