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It is mountainous, well watered with perennial 
streams, and mollified by fogs, deposited from 
the western winds, which come regularly to 
different places, at different hours, every day. 
JSTear the Muria we enter dense forests, whose 
gigantic trees covered with scarlet or otter 
coloured blossoms, and giving support to nu- 
merous enormous climbers, with the curious 
notes of strange tropical birds, present the idea 
of excessive luxuriance, and recall the feelings 
of wildness, produced when standing in similar 
sylvan scenery, in the interior of Brazil. The 
palm which yields the oil of commerce, grows 
everywhere. Pine-apples, bananas, and different 
kinds of South American fruit trees, first intro- 
duced by the Missionaries, flourish in the woods, 
though apparently wild, and totally uncared for. 
Most excellent coffee, from a few seeds of the 
celebrated Mocha, propagates itself spontane- 
ously in the forests, which line the mountain 
sides. Cotton of rather inferior quality finds 
itself so well suited with climate and soil, that 
it appears as if indigenous. Provisions are 
abundant and cheap. Ten pounds of the produce 
of the manioc plant, which under the classical 
appellation, "Revalenta Arabica" sells in Eng- 
land for twenty-two shillings, may, in the dis- 
trict referred to, be purchased for one penny. 
Labour too is abuudant and cheap ; two pence 
