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WANDERINGS IN 
SECOND 
JOURNEY, 
made of the columbine tribe. The prodigious variety 
of water fowl, on the sea-shore, has been but barely 
hinted at. 
There, and on the borders and surface of the inland 
waters, in the marshes and creeks, besides the fla¬ 
mingos, scarlet curlew, and spoonbills, already 
mentioned, will be found ; greenish-brown curlews, 
sandpipers, rails, coots, gulls, pelicans, jabirus, nan- 
dapoas, crabiers, snipes, plovers, ducks, geese, cranes, 
and anhingas; most of them in vast abundance; 
some frequenting only the sea-coast, others only the 
interior, according to their different natures; all 
worthy the attention of the naturalist, all worthy of a 
place in the cabinet of the curious. 
Should thy comprehensive genius not confine itself 
to birds alone, grand is the appearance of other 
objects all around. Thou art in a land rich in 
botany and mineralogy, rich in zoology and entomo¬ 
logy. Animation will glow in thy looks, and exer¬ 
cise will brace thy frame in vigour. The very time 
of thy absence from the tables of heterogeneous 
luxury will be profitable to thy stomach, perhaps 
already sorely drenched with Londo-Parisian sauces, 
and a new stock of health will bring thee an appe¬ 
tite to relish the wholesome food of the chase. 
♦ 
Never-failing sleep will wait on thee at the time she 
comes to soothe the rest of animated nature ; and, 
ere the sun’s rays appear in the horizon, thou wilt 
spring from thy hammock fresh as April lark. Be 
convinced also, that the dangers and difficulties which 
are generally supposed to accompany the traveller in 
