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PLATE ХУ. 
Close to the coffee plantation of Laymastotte a forest of tall trees covers the steep ledge of the 
mountains. A brook rushes down concealed by dense masses of foliage, only now and then making 
its appearance, when the water bounds from the rocks into a precipice, exposing its snowy foam 
to the light, before it disappears amid the gloom underneath. Тһе openings in the dense wood 
near these cascades are expansive enough to admit a flood of sunshine into the interior, and thus 
present to the gaze of the traveller a new attraction by reason of its picturesque beauty and the 
various forms of animal life, with which it is teeming. Small, birds fly from tree to tree, basking 
in the sunshine and butterflies*) of uncommon size, display in the sunlight their varicoloured wings 
as they hover above the foliage and suck the moisture from the rocks contiguous to the water. 
Plate XV. exhibits one of the many cascades above mentioned, which is situated at an ele- 
vation of about 3000 feet above the level of the sea. 
A fig-tree covered with creepers slightly bends its tall hollow trunk over the water. 
*) Pap. Helenus, P. Polymnestor, Hestia Jasonia ete. 
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