Commercial Tariffs and Regulations of the Several States of Europe and America Volume 20-21; Together with the Commercial Treaties Between England and Foreign Countries, PT. IV-[Vi, VIII-XXI, XXIII] baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...linnet, but is a little larger. It derives its name from a small crimson cap, or hood, which covers part of the neck: its song is loud and pleasant. dows abound with the hawk-heron, the American lapwing, and plovers and water-fowl in abundance. The shining violet oriole, and the razor-billed blackbird are the common inhabitants of the fields and hedges. The luxuriance and richness of the vegetable world in South America is ascribed by Humboldt to the great moisture which everywhere prevails, and which gives it an advantage over all other hot countries, forming a more happy and fertile contrast to those parts of Africa which ie within the same parallels of latitude. In many respects the climate, the soil, the varied surface, and the rich vegetation, seem to resemble more some parts of Asia Minor. But in that exuberance of evergreen foliage which forms the peculiar characteristic of the New Continent--in the number of its richly-wooded mountains, the sources of countless springs--in the abundance of large streams, in the character even of its sandless deserts and indomitable forests--the tropical regions of Brazil are almost pre-eminent to those of any other region. The Amazonian forests, or those which stretch inland from the banks and tributaries of the Amazon, are especially remarkable for luxuriance of growth and the majestic grandeur of the trees. Many of the trees often grow to a great height, and remarkably straight upwards. Some of them are decked from the roots upwards with splendid flowers and parasites, and the trunks and boughs are frequently interlaced with innumerable runners or creeping vines. On the borders of the Amazon the sylvan vegetation grows up and spreads forth in the greatest luxuriance. The vines, creepers, and parasites, twist aroun...