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    Note 23, page 87, lines 5 and 6.

    Yet those deep southern shades oppress'd
    My soul with stillness.

    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, "no breath of wind ever agitates the foliage."

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