BRAZILIAN SCENERY. 
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The botanist, naturalist, and even the ordinary 
observer of nature, who for the first time wanders 
through a Brazilian forest, cannot fail to realise 
sensations of the utmost delight at the lavish beauty 
met with ; all this Providence has bestowed, in 
an extraordinary degree, attesting the illimitable 
power and beneficence of the Creator. All those 
interesting objects that nature loves to blend may 
be found here. The beauty of the trees, enhanced 
by innumerable vine-creepers, parasites, and orchids, 
shrouding every trunk and festooning every path, 
the luxuriance of vegetation, the elegance of the 
ferns, grasses, and flowers, tend to awaken in the 
observer a sense of his own littleness, and to force 
him, even in spite of himself, to acknowledge the 
Power that formed them. 
The number of vegetable products found here is 
almost beyond belief. Coffee, cocoa, tea, all sorts of 
fruit, scents and spices, sarsaparilla, quinine, Tonquin 
beans, indigo, india-rubber, bread-fruit, the beautiful 
cashew-nut, gay-coloured apples and plants, gums, 
seeds, and leaves, of infinite variety and great value, 
everywhere abound. 
Such are among the elements of scenery met with ; 
but to paint its effect is a hopeless endeavour. 
Thus the time at our disposal soon passed. Leave 
had been granted to the ship’s company, who en- 
joyed themselves after a fashion in this expensive 
locality. A theatrical entertainment on board the 
