Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken to keep the ground clear, that there may be no obstruction to walking nor any shelter for venomous insects and reptiles. These delicious orchards, without the aid of grafting, nay almost without any kind of culture, yield all the year round abundance of the most exquisite fruits. ‘The balmy air which is here breathed ; the murmuring of the river as it runs among masses of granitic rock, which almost every where stud its bed ; the rustling of the breeze among the foliage ; the cooing of four or five different species of doves; the intermitting cry of parroquets and. of the bald calao, which inhabit these groves, fill the soul with the most vo- luptuous langour- The owners of these