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centuries in England, which, she still teaches to those 

 who wish to hear her, and which she will continue to 

 teach, pure and unspotted, till time shall be no more." 

 The environs of Pernambuco are very pretty. You 

 see country houses in all directions, and the 

 Pe^nambuco° f a PP earance 0I> nere an d there a sugar plan- 

 tation enriches the scenery. Palm-trees, 

 cocoa-nut-trees, orange and lemon groves, and all the 

 different fruits peculiar to Brazil, are here in the greatest 

 abundance. 



At Olinda there is a national botanical garden ; it 

 wants space, produce, and improvement. The forests, 

 which are several leagues off, abound with birds, beasts, 

 insects, and serpents. Besides a brilliant plumage, 

 many of the birds have a very fine song. The troupiale, 

 noted for its rich colours, sings delightfully in the 

 environs of Pernambuco. The red-headed finch, larger 

 than the European sparrow, pours forth a sweet and 

 varied strain, in company with two species of wrens, a 

 little before daylight. There are also several species of 

 the thrush, which have a song somewhat different from 

 that of the European thrush ; and two species of the 

 linnet, whose strain is so soft and sweet that it dooms 

 them to captivity in the houses. A bird called here 

 Sangre do Buey, blood of the ox, cannot fail to engage 

 your attention : he is of the passerine tribe, and very 

 common about the houses ; the wings and tail are black, 

 and every other part of the body a flaming red. In 

 Guiana, there is a species exactly the same as this in 

 shape, note, and economy, but differing in colour, its 

 whole body being like black velvet; on its breast a 

 tinge of red appears through the black. Thus nature 

 has ordered this little Tangara to put on mourning 



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