ALOE. 
235 
monstrous plants have been given to barbarous 
Africa: they grow upon rocks, in dry sand, 
amidst a burning atmosphere, breathed by lions 
and tigers. Let us be thankful to bounteous 
Nature, who in our mild climate has every 
where raised bowers of verdure over our heads, 
and spread carpets of daisies, primroses, and 
violets, under our feet! 
