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tban the countries whose shores are bathed by 
these waters. If the hot countries of Africa and 
America have, among their feathered tribes, their 
souimangas, their humming-birds, their cotingas, 
and their tanagers, the intermediate seas support 
j myriads of the finny race still more brilliant, 
whose scales refiect the tints of metals and pre- 
cious stones, heightened in effect by spots and 
bands of a more sombre hue, distributed with a 
symmetry and variety equally admirable. The 
