346 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAll.' 



lentii. This kguminous plant rifes to the 

 height of the cherry-tree : in fome of the 

 Snterior provinces its leaves are employed 

 for feeding filk-worma* 



When you qiut the plains and meadows, 

 to enter thofe immcnfe forefla which ferve 

 m a retreat for a wiety cf wild animals, 

 your imagination is ftruck with beauties of 

 another kind. Profound folitudc, a coolnefe 

 which furprifes you in fo warm a climate| 

 fliades inacceffible to the rays of the fun, 

 and eclioes which on all fides repeat the 

 bellowing of the cattle, ftill afibrd you new 

 enjoy meuta* Bnt lhef<? enjoyments do not 

 equally delight alll they feem to be fuited 

 in a peculiar mannet tp thofe who are of a 

 ferious and melancholy difpofition : yet, 

 however infenfible people may be to the 

 beauties of nature, they will always behold 

 wkh a kind of enthufiafm that multitude 



