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tractions, from the extreme beauty and variety of the landscapes. The fresh and purifying air breathing from the mountain tops, through rho- dodrendron-trees clothed with their gorgeous flowers ; the wild cinnamon-tree with its own delicate blossom and fragrance, encircled by the honeysuckle and great dog-rose, relieved by a back-ground of stately ever-greens ; whilst the merry black-birds pouring their melodious E 2 52 FALLS OF THE CAVERY notes and making the forest ring with tuneful harmony, made altogether such a scene, as dear Old England can alone surpass. Nor is the chorus the less perfect for an occasional deep note from a fine elk, looking down in seeming defi- ance from the summit of some neighbouring hill, and majestically descending, with his full ant- lers and measured step, into a wood on the other side, where some tumbling cataract, or a clear stream running at the bottom of it, affords a good promise of becoming better acquainted with him. In this manner stags have been shot fourteen hands and an inch in height. The flesh of the body weighing 586 pounds, and the span between the horns, thirty-three inches.

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