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mimosas or the pine-like growing ted. Partial 



glimpses of the winding Airahra beyond ; here, 

 where it meanders sluggishly through a verdant 

 mead, or there, where a silver column marks a 

 distant Ml ; the opposite grey cliffs of the Tchakkah 

 range, dotted with dark green clumps of the huge 

 crimson-flowering cosso, all aid in filling up the back- 

 ground of a picture of real beauty and of apparent 

 peace, upon which the eye and mind can dwell 

 for hours untired, contemplating with a pleased 

 sympathy of delight, upon a scene that appears so 

 adapted for a practical experiment of Utopian colo- 

 nization, the object of which should be the fullest 

 development of human happiness and excellence. 



I did not stop to-day, except when violent palpi- 

 tation of the heart and the greatest oppression in 

 breathing obliged me to come to a stand to recover 

 myself after climbing up some stairs formed of the 

 trunks of trees, that placed me upon a level 

 position or landing-place ; several of which aids in 

 the steep ascent, characterize the King's highway 

 into Ankobar. Leaning upon Walderheros, I 

 turned under the arch-way of the first gate, and 

 passed through a narrow court, or partition, 

 between two succeeding enclosures. Then beneath 

 another gate-house, over which the clanking of 

 chains needed no interpretation from my servant 

 that it was the Royal prison for the temporary 

 confinement of culprits. In the sheltered passage 

 thus formed, I sat upon a huge stone to rest, 



