Leaves from a Madeira Garden 



found on the ground at the top of one of the 

 hills, where a stranger had been unlucky enough 

 to break an instrument — a curious instance of 

 unconscious " salting." 



Delightful as is the vicinity of Sta. Anna, 

 the traveller who wishes to realize fully the 

 beauty and grandeur of the north coast must 

 travel further westward. In the course of his 

 journey he will descend into the ravines of 

 many rivers, crossing them perhaps not much 

 above the sea-level, and ascend again and again 

 by tortuous and steep paths the ridges which 

 divide them. These wanderings will lead him 

 along the face of headlands, against the base of 

 which, perhaps a thousand or fifteen hundred 

 feet directly below, the surf thunders un- 

 ceasingly. In such awe-inspiring situations, 

 along a rough and narrow path hewn in the 

 rock, he may perhaps deem it wiser to lead his 

 horse than to ride him. And the grandest and 

 wildest path of all can only be traversed on 

 foot. 



West of Sta. Anna lies the village of St. Jorge, 

 situate also about a thousand feet above the sea. 

 It looks but a little way off, but it takes two or 

 three hours to ride to it. It is the centre of a 



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