BBEARY ASPECT II' PLAINS. 
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The earth there was confounded with the sky. Through the 
dry mist and strata of vapour the trunks of palm-trees were 
seen from afar, stripped of their foliage and their verdant 
summits, and looking like the masts of a ship descried upon 
the horizon. r 
• FF ere “ something awful, as well as sad and gloomy, 
m the uniform aspect of these steppes. Evervthing seems 
mo louless j scarcely does a small cloud, passing across the 
?, em , ’ , anci denoting the approach of the rainy season, cast 
its shadow on the earth. I know not whether the first 
aspect ol the Llanos excite less astonishment than that of the 
j ° , e . ~*des. Mountainous countries, whatever may 
anololuM " elevatl0n the highest summits, have an 
difficult v ti 5 ’ 1 iu * we accustom ourselves with 
re t y tW fu e B° f the Tdanos of Venezuela and Casa- 
t f th ° .F am I ,as of Buenos Ayres and of Chaco, 
hich recal to mmd incessantly, and during iournevs of 
twenty or thirty days, the smooth surface of the oceai I 
fheWW Uan ° 8 of La Mancha in SpaiTand 
land^thrnu ^?” ceta ) that oxt ™ d from the extremity of Jut- 
{“t d ;S ° ii h Buneburg and Westphalia; to Belgium. These 
1)n ,■ ste PPes, and, dunng several ages, only small 
portions of them have yielded to cultivation • but the y p lains 
of the T eSt and north of Europe present onlv a feeble Fmao-e 
of the immense llanos of South America. It is in the south 
which meet the horizon on everlsfde d The nl^r fV nd 
gary, where I traversed them 2 ^hefro^Tc £££ 
JhtSeU?r b ^ S H and StHke the i?n™o y f 
extentTs moLV C T t l ant rnira S e ; but then greatest 
Tittel Tli . ,? t le east ’ between Czegled, Debreczin, and 
of vfuWi T ^ . ie ^ P resen t the appearance of a vast ocean 
Wait/ewi U Fi! ng ..°F y 0lltlets i one near Gran and 
Tb„ U'm be < i t ler between Belgrade and Widdin. 
be cli n p, er ? n t quarters of the world have been supposed to 
a s ; a , emed “V the remark, that Europe has its heaths, 
nabs h A.f nca Vs deserts, and America its savan- 
» DUt °y rms distmetion, contrasts are established that 
