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    The lama-driver, on Peruvia's peak,
    Nor voice nor living motion marks around,
    But storks that to the boundless forest shriek,
    Or wild-cane arch, high flung o'er gulf profound,
    That fluctuates when the storms of El Dorado sound.

    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,
    From the mysterious rocks, the sunrise-music borne.

    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.

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