Identifier: cruisingamongcar01stod (find matches)
Title: Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Stoddard, Charles Augustus, 1833-1920
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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shiningleaves reflected the sun with dazzling effect. Be-yond rose a ridge crowned with palmistes, their tall,smooth stems standing up against the horizon,crowned with an umbrella-shaped top, which wavedperceptibly in the wind, even at such an altitude.Near at hand, along the road, which later becameonly a path, trees and vines were dense and ofteninterlaced. There were breadfruit, mango, lime, andlemon trees; forests of cocoa trees loaded with fruitabout the size of a large cucumber, colored accord-ing to the stage of development, green, yellow, orrich purple, and seeming to grow directly from thebranch without any stem; clumps of green andgraceful bamboos rising a hundred feet into the airand waving their feathery tops; huge ceiba treescovered with parasites and orchids; almond treesand giant flamboyants with red blossoms. Furtherup, in vales and hollows, we came to manifold treeferns, whose slender stalks supported at the heightof twenty or thirty feet the most delicate green lace
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SABBATH DAY ISLAND 113 work parasols and umbrellas that were ever seen.The ravines were full of those of larger growth, andthe banks along our path were covered with littleones all infinitely beautiful. Here, too, were bananaand tamarind trees loaded with clusters of fruit,while half hid from view by their enormous fronds,some curious red flowers, shaped like lobsters claws,clung to the green stems of a strange plant. Icounted fifty kinds of flowers on a single bank, andthe ferns and mosses were innumerable. As we rose higher, the air, which had been warmand languorous, became fresh and clear, and theocean could now and then be seen on each side of theisland. Anon we descended into deep valleys, wherelimes were cultivated on a plantation, and intodenser valleys, where nothing met the eye but anocean of foliage, heights crowned with trees andinterlaced with shrubs, a Colorado canon resplendentwith rich vegetation of the rarest and most beautifulsorts. However high we climbed, there wer

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