Tils GREAT C.AVERN OF GUACIIARO. 
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The 
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At CAVERN OF CUACHAllO, IN SOUTH AMERICA.* 
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** where the people love Avhat is marvellous, 
*’''*i*’ S'l'es birth to a river, and is inhabited by 
'U tl'o fioeturnal birds, the fat of which is employed 
Ahr-- - - . . - . - 
Vg'” ‘'^l^®ioiis to dress food, is an everlasting object of 
T'Vt;.j and discussion. Scarcely has a stranger ar- 
'-umana, when he is told of the stone of Araya 
I 'hi ■ The labourer of Arenas who suckled his 
^t'agues in length ; till he is tired of hearin, 
jf del Guacharo is pierced in the vertical pro- 
'“rrn. '' Tuck. 'FU *• ^ I *' ‘U ' 
M*' Cavkr.n of Guacharo, which is said to 
' ^ of 
p ■^he I 
. The entrance is toward the south, and 
'rlh. eighty feet broad, and seventy-two feet 
V**''' tree 'ock, that surmounts the grottOj is covered 
gt'ni^ gigantic height. The mammee-tree, and 
T5’itli large and shining leaves, raise their 
' ^Ttically toward the sky ; while those of the 
u h'-^i erjthrina form, as they extend them- 
vault of verdure. Plants of the family of 
, . ' ®tifcnlent stems, oxalises, and orchideae of a 
"hii structure, 
''ovpi, 
ll''''"guisi before the opening of the cavern. We 
1‘tirnl *1' li’T these festoons a bignonia of a violet-Wue, 
j, . . rise in the driest clefts of the rocks ; 
,, plants, waving in the winds, are inter- 
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t; "'■ange flower of which has a fleshy tube more 
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los, and for the first time that maoniflcent 
^ '''"w of *"Tig. I’he entrances of grottoes, like 
pl^ ''’*Tuat;yj|^’'®‘^Ades, derive their principal charm from 
4 U(] ’ or less majestic, in which they are 
land- *Tch in some sort determines the character 
v ^Vhat a contrast between the Cueva of 
‘"niul 
li* ^iid ti 
'•s.ni.A tiiose caverns of the North crowned with 
o ‘"‘u cl/,., , caverns c 
a IK ‘ th^ ], ^rch.trees ! 
Of embellishes not only the 
even in the vestibule of the 
^'ehtcif^'f "''Th astonishment plantain-leaved heli- 
' aru[* The praga palm-tree, and aiA. 
r~'^' — follow the banks of the river even to 
t iPe rcrsoiial Nairadve'of Humboldt, vol. Hi. 
