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curiosity must he be, who can journey on without stopping j^^^^l^^ 

 to take a view of the towering mora. Its topmost branch, ' 

 when naked with age, or dried by accident, is the favourite 

 resort of the toucan. Many a time has this singular bird 

 felt the shot faintly strike him, from the gun of the fowler 

 beneath, and owed his life to the distance betwixt them. 



The trees which form these far-extending wilds, are 

 as useful as they are ornamental. It would take a volume 

 of itself to describe them. 



The green-heart, famous for its hardness and dura- 

 bility ; the hackea, for its toughness ; the ducalabali, 

 surpassing mahogany ; the ebony and letter-wood, vicing 

 with the choicest woods of the old world ; the locust- 

 tree, yielding copal ; and the hayawa and olou-trees, 

 fm-nishing a sweet smelling resin, are all to be met with 

 in the forest, betwixt the plantations and the rock Saba. 



Beyond this rock, the country has been little explored ; 

 but it is very probable that these, and a vast collection of 

 other kinds, and possibly many new species, are scattered 

 up and down, in all directions, through the swamps, and 

 hills, and savannas of ci-devant Dutch Guiana. 



On viewing the stately trees around him^ the naturalist 

 will observe many of them bearing leaves, and blossoms, 

 and fruit, not their own. 



The wild fig-tree, as large as a common Enghsh apple- The wild 

 tree, often rears itself from one of the thick branches at ° 

 the top of the mora ; and when its fruit is ripe, to it the 



