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Yet we may not neglect the fair DAHLIA' bright;
Nor her the fam'd CACTUS' who blooms in the night;
Nor the FUCHSIA,3 with red and with frutescent

stems,

And with florests depending like bright crimson gems; Nor the ALOE who sits on the rock all serene, Unfolding her leaves long and thick and pale green. Midst the lords of the forest, PIMENTA grows there,

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Whose beauty and fragrance what need to declare?
The BOMBAX' abundant in pods of fine silk ;-
The Cocos nutricious with nuts full of milk;
The red THEOBROMA delighting in shade,

From whose rich oily nuts the fam'd chocolate's made;

The hard SIDEROXYLON also there grows;—

And the lofty MAHOGANY9 round her arms throws;—

1 Dahlia superflua and frustranea. They are now common in this country.

2. Cactus grandiflorus. This plant produces a very magnificent flower of an exquisite odour; it is said to open at sunset, and to ⚫ continue in perfection only six hours. It belongs to that class of plants called Cereus.

3 Fuchsia coccinea.

4 Myrtus pimenta, or ALLSPICE TREE.

5 Bombax heptaphyllum, SILK COTTON TREE, or Ceiba.

6 Cocos nucifera, or Cocoa NUT TREE.

7 Theobroma cacoa, or CHOCOLAte Tree.

• Sideroxylon lycioides, or WILLOW LEAVED IRON WOOD. 9 Swietenia mahagoni, or COMMON MAHOGANY.

While the strange INDIAN TREE' sends her shoots

to the ground;

For the WARBLERS a harvest her fruit will be found. The CABBAGE TREE PALM2 lifts her broad leaves on

high;

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The FAN-PALM3 and TAMARIND4 also grow nigh ;-
The GUAIACUM3 rich in medicinal gum ;-
The FERNS plants perennial and lofty become;
The leguminous CASSIA, with flowers of gold,
Is pleas'd her pale foliage in light to unfold:
While many trees more, in their floral robes dight,
Aroma diffuse on a zephyr wing light;

For the BIRDS they would seem almost purposely made;
As food some, and others delightful as shade.

'Ficus Indicus, or WILD FIG. A similar tree is called in the East Indies BANYAN. See a more extended poetical description of this tree in SOUTHEY'S CURSE of KEHAMA; see also MILTON'S PARADISE LOST.

• Areca oleracea.

3 Corypha umbraculifera.

4 Tamarindus Indica.

5 Guaiacum officinale.

6 Polypodium arboreum, or Cyathea arborea, a perennial fern rising twenty feet high, with leaves that give it the appearance of a palm tree.

7 Cassia fistula. The fruit of this tree is a woody, round, blackish pod, about one inch in diameter, and sometimes two feet long; it contains a sweet pulp, which is used in medicine as a gentle purgative. It is a native of both the Indies; some persons have imagined this to be the wild honey eaten by St. John in the wilderness-but surely without reason.

With the PINE-APPLE,' rich in a nectarine taste,
The clefts of the rocks in abundance are grac'd.

There, too, RICINUS2 broad-leav'd, whose reniform seed

Secretes in its cells panaceas indeed;

There the CAPSICUM3 rich in pods pungent and red; And there the BANANA+ uplifts too her head.

Thus the LORD of the MOUNTAIN (') was pleas'd to invite

His vassals to meet on this day of delight.

(1) Order, ACCIPITRES, (Linn.) CONDOR, VULTURE, the KING, the AURA, the CRESTED, the AQUILINE.

The genus VULTUR, (Linn.) or VULTURE, to which the CONDOR OF CONDUR, the Vultur gryphus, belongs, and to which

1 Bromelia Ananus.

* Ricinus Communis, or Palma Christi. An annual plant, growing plentifully in the West Indies; it is of very quick growth, and sometimes attains the height of sixteen feet. From its seed is obtained the well known and safe purgative called CASTOR OIL.

3 The Capsicum Annuum, buccatum, and other species of BIRD PEPPER, are well known pungent stimulants, from some of which is obtained the CAYENNE Pepper.

4 The Musa sapientum, or BANANA TREE, is supposed to be a native of Guinea, whence it was carried to the West Indies, where it now flourishes most abundantly. The stalks of this plant are peculiarly porous; the root alone is perennial, the rest dying down to the ground every year; the leaves are two yards long and a foot broad. The fruit is in the form of a cucumber, four or five inches long. The weight of a bunch of bananas usually exceeds twelve pounds; when ripe it is eaten by all ranks of people either raw or fried.

"Now haste to the dell of enchantment away!” In vigour arose and exclaim'd the fresh day.

the term Vulture in the text is designed emphatically to be applied, comprehends above thirty specics scattered over the warmer parts of the globe: some of which inhabit America, some Asia, some Africa, and some other parts of the world, but none of them is found in this country. They seem to be peculiarly inhabitants of warm climates, chiefly, it is presumed, because putrid flesh, on which they feed, is there most plentiful.

They are distinguished by a straight bill hooked at the point; the head is bare of feathers, with a naked skin in front; tongue cleft; neck retractile; sense of smell generally acute. They are a rapacious tribe, feeding on carcasses, however putrid: unless pressed by hunger they seldom attack living animals. WATERTON, indeed, informs us, in his Wanderings in South America, that Vultures never live upon live animals; that in Paramaribo the laws protect them, and that in Angustura they are as tame as domestic fowls. They are bold, gregarious, fly slowly, unless very high in the air. The following are the chief:

The Gryphus, CONDOR, CONDUR, or Zumbadore, is of prodi gious size, measuring, with the wings extended, it is said, fourteen, sixteen, or even more, but other accounts say ten or eleven, feet. Mr. BARROW wounded a Condor at the Cape of Good Hope, whose wings, when spread, measured ten feet and one inch. The bill is black, four inches long, point white; caruncle on the crown as long as the head; the throat is naked, the bottom of which is surrounded with a white ruff composed of long fine feathers of a hairy texture; the lesser wing coverts wholly black, middle ones the same with greyish white ends, forming a bar when closed; the greater, half black and half white, divided obliquely; three first quills black; secondaries white, tipped with black; back black; tail black; legs stout, reddish brown, and those as well as the claws, which are three quarters of an inch long, are said to be covered with scales.

The birds heard his voice, ere the glorious sun
Had his race o'er the waters in radiance begun.

The chief of this description is from Dr. LATHAM, who derived his information from an actual specimen; but the scarcity of this bird renders its accurate description difficult, and it also varies in different authors.

It is said to build under the protection of the highest rocks; eggs two, white; the nest must be, of course, large, but its size, or of what materials composed, does not seem with accuracy known. Inhabits South America, Asia, some parts of Africa, and probably other regions of the globe; it appears to be a bird of enormous power, but is, in every country, extremely rare.

This rapacious animal has attracted the notice of travellers, who have, perhaps, too often given their descriptions of it an air of exaggeration. Dr. GRAINGER, author of the Sugar Cane, and other Poems, has alluded to it under the name of Zumbadore, so called, he informs us, in consequence of the hideous humming noise which it makes:

"The swift wing'd Zumbadore

The mountain desert startled with his hum."

Sugar Cane, Book I.

In a note to the poem it is said that this bird, one of the largest and swiftest known, "is only seen at night, or rather heard, on the desert tops of the Andes." This, however, is not, by later accounts, correct: the condor frequents the seacoasts during the rainy season in the evening, remains there all night, and returns in the morning to the mountains. From the extreme rarity of this bird its natural history is not yet well understood; further information concerning it is every way desirable.

It has been conjectured that the Roc mentioned in the fables of the Arabian writers is this bird.

The Papa, KING-OF-THE-VULTURES, or King-Vulture, has the nostrils carunculate; crown and neck naked; body above

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