The lama-driver, on Peruvia's peak, Nor voice nor living motion marks around, But storks that to the boundless forest shriek, Note 21, page 86, lines 14 and 15. And then his play Through the wide_ Llanos cheer'd again our way. Llanos, or savannas, the great plains in South America. Note 22, page 86, lines 16, 17, 18. And by the mighty Oronoco stream, On whose lone margin we have heard at morn, De Humboldt speaks of these rocks on the shores of the Oronoco. Travellers have heard from time to time subterraneous sounds proceed from them at sun-rise, resembling those of an organ. He believes in the existence of this mysterious music, although not fortunate enough to have heard it himself, and thinks that it may be produced by currents of air issuing through the crevices. Note 23, page 87, lines 5 and 6. Yet those deep southern shades oppress'd The same distinguished traveller frequently alludes to the extreme stillness of the air in the equatorial regions of the new continent, and particularly on the thickly wooded shores of the Oronoco. "In this neighbourhood," he says, 66 no breath of wind ever agitates the foliage." |