by the moft exemplary humanity, and whofe 

 talents command univerfal refpe£t. He con- 

 siders the little animal as only following the 

 didtates of inftinft, in procuring his food, and 

 feels that he ought not to deal his vengeance 

 againft nature or to take away the life he 

 could not |give. " Excellent philofophy 

 methinks I hear you exclaim !— He may have 

 brilliant talents, and vaft acutenefs of mind ; 

 but he has no fenfibility of nofe ! 



From the houfe we now occupy, at La 

 Bourgade, a fine avenue of fruit trees leads 

 down the whole depth of the eftate, back to 

 the wild foreft 5 or what is here termed " the 

 Bujh" from which the plantation is feparated 

 only by a wet ditch and a bank. Rambling 

 this afternoon in a folitary and penfive pro- 

 menade, amongft the oranges and other fruit 

 trees, prote&ed from the mufquitoes, by thick 

 gloves and pantaloons, I, fuddenly, found my- 

 felf arrefted, at the diftance of a mile and a 

 half from the houfe, by the deep woods which, 

 in heavy gloom, oppofe an impenetrable bar- 

 rier to the eftate. My fauntering walk being 

 thus interrupted I became fixed in contempla- 

 tion, and, with my eye refting upon the foreft, 



