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TROPICAL SCEKERT. 
(lunng a long succession of years. In Europe, the inhabitant 
ot the north feels an almost similar emotion, when he quits 
even alter a short abode the shores of the Bay of Naples the 
delicious country between Tivoli and the lake of Nemi or 
the wild and majestic scenery of the Upper Alps and the 
SectTnf Te f Kl' C1T T her ° iu the temperate^ zone, the 
The firs n L ft geta V e ? h -\ 810 - n0ln . v , afford ^le contrast. 
_tne ii rs and the oaks winch crown the mountains of Sweden 
have a certain family air iu common with those which 
adorn Greece and Italy. Between the tropics, on the con- 
trary, m the lower regions of both Indies, everything in 
nature appears new and marvellous. In the open plains and 
amid the gloom of forests, almost all the remembrances of 
Europe are eflaced ; for it is vegetation that determines the 
cnaiacter of a landscape, and acts upon the imagination by 
ooW SS ’t 16 ° 0ntr f- St ° f it9 f °™ 8 > and the S 1 ™ of its 
coiouis In proportion as impressions are powerful and 
new, they weaken antecedent impressions, and their force 
imparts to them the character of duration. I appeal to 
those who, more sensible to the beauties of nature than to 
the charms of society, have long resided in the torrid zone 
How dear how memorable dining life, is the land on which 
they first disembarked ! A vague desire to revisit that spot 
remains rooted in then minds to the most advanced a<m 
Humana and its dusty soil are still more frequently present 
'u lri y ““Jpuation, than all the wonders of the Cordilleras 
Beneath the bright sky of the south, the light, and the magic 
" , the ae ''!, al hues, embellish a land almost destitute of vege- 
tation. Die sun does not merely enlighten, it colours the 
objects, and wraps them in a thin vapour, which, without 
changing the transparency of the air, renders its tbts more 
harmonious, softens the effects of the light, and diffuses over 
nature a placid calm, which is reflected in our souls. To 
in P S twV^T^ 1 ’ 6881 ! 011 ' Vhich tlle as P ect of th e scenery 
” A j -7° lluPes Produces, even on coasts but thinly 
wooded, it is sufficient to recollect that the beauty of the 
sky augments from Naples to the equator, almost as much as 
from Provence to the south of Italy 
r , W 1 e P, asse . d afc }d Kh water the bar formed at the mouth of 
the htCe nver Manzanares. The evening breeze gentiv 
swelled the waves m the gulf of Cariaco. The mx>n had 
