MORNING ON THE PEAKS. 
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When the advancing light began to break over the 
black and frowning peaks, and Venus vraned, the 
Peadove commenced, from the neighbouring woods, 
her five-fold coo, hollow and moaning. Then the 
Petchary cackled his three or four rapid notes ; and 
from a distant wooded hill, as yet shrouded in dark- 
ness, proceeded the rich, mellow, but broken song of 
the Hopping Dick. Now the whole east was ruddy, 
and the rugged points and trees on the summit of the 
mountain-ridge, interrupting the flood of crimson 
light, produced the singularly beautiful phenomenon 
of a series of rose-coloured beams, diverging from the 
eastern quarter, and spreading like an expanded fan 
aeross the whole arch of heaven, each ray dilating as 
it advanced. Then Mocking-birds all around broke 
into song, pouring forth their rich gushes and powerful 
bursts of melody, filling the ear, and overpowering all 
the other varied voices, which now helped to swell 
the morning concert of awakening birds. 
PHCENIX PARK. 
Many of the opulent merchants of Savanna le Mar 
have pleasant country seats, a few miles out of town. 
At one of these, the residence of a kind friend, I 
frequently spent a few days ; though the neighbour- 
hood was not peculiarly favourable to my pursuits. 
As Jamaica houses are commonly built on one prin- 
ciple, I will briefly describe it. The furnished part 
of the house is all on the same level, forming what 
we should call the first floor, the whole of the 
ground-floor being devoted to store-rooms and cellars. 
