Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, & 1824 / [Charles Waterton] ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, & 1824 / [Charles Waterton] ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AA, FIRST WANDERINGS IN of immense rocks. The huts are not all in one place, but dispersed wherever they have found a place level enough for a lodgement. Before you Immense plain. Creek. two of wood, then an open space, with a few huts on it; then wood again, and then an open space; and so on; till the intervening of the western hills, higher and steeper still, and crowded with trees of the loveliest shades, closes iain: en- chanting scene. At the base of this hill stretches an immense plain, which appears to the eye, on this elevated spot, as level as a bowling green. ‘The mountains on the other side are piled one upon the other in romantic forms, and gradually retire, till they are undiscernible from the clouds in which they are involved. To the south-south-west this far- extending plain is lost in the horizon. The trees on it, which look like islands on the ocean, add greatly to the beauty of the landscape; while the rivulet’s course is marked out by the eta trees which follow its meanders. : * Not being able to pursue the direct course from hence to the next Indian habitation, on account of the floods of water which fall at this time of the year, you take a circuit westerly along the moun- tain’s foot. At last a large and deep creek stops your progress: it is wide and rapid, and its banks very steep. There is neither curial nor canoe,