The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-05-19

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hended degrees south and TWO degrees north,
has ali The climates OF The world represented within It's
narrow bounds lis but four five days travel from
uooical afiuence OF vegetation 10 snow and ice that
never melt Ii is il scale there arranged with
the marks OF every zone set in accurate and beautiful
succession the notes OF music and may inagne
these keys OF earthly order striking In unison with the
harmohies OF the Spheres IN homage TO the great Organ
Isl, who has SO closely united here "seed time and har
vest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter"
Some OF The highest peaks OF The Andes are distant
from the Pacific coast scarcely hundred miles, aud
could the intervening distance be raversed by steam one
could go in several hours from lorld regions 10 ever
lasting ice But the journey is tedious and cIcuitous,
the backs OF mules IN steep and rugged roads, except
the of the river OF Guy aqul TO the city OF tue
same name, aud thence the head Of navigation, where
the inland journey besns English steamers ascend Il
pished in canoes or in small steamers belonging to the
government from the Pacific the last stopping place
the river Is eighty or ninety miles long.
On The national coat OF arms, together with the peaks
of the Andes and the rising sun, portrayed the little
steamer like H. in which the passage up the river
made. This vessel mounts two guns, and though not
formidable piece of naval architecture, yet being dis
aged thus proudly eminent above mountains and the
sun II is source OF towering pde 10 the republic
strikes useful terror into neshborng nations and is
lively image OF the present dspensaon when the nsurper
steam domineers over the majesty OF Nature. In The
very land OF the lncas the worship OF the sun yields 10
the prevailing alteration CT steam vi the two dolaers
the worship OF the sun IS the more reasonable natural
and sublime. When the good time coming comes there
may be for higher achievements OF human lntell
gence than to devise steamboat crystal palace
Meanwhile, in waiting Tor that good time coming which
long upon the road let proceed towards Quito
The river Guayaqui has not upon It's banks-like that
gem of tropical beauty the river Chagres con-
nuous forests which, ntsrlaced by mylads OF vines,
make each side OF the latter stream vast natural arbo
but much wider and gives less obstructed views OF
the surrounding countIyo fair morning or evening
Chmboazo is seen lar inland There was in New Eng
land a few years ago. of clear night in the depth Of
winter, boreais which redeemed the entire sky
and the face OF The earh covered with snow, was red
the sky above Imagine such aurora to fall upon
distant mountain, four miles hlgb the summit OF which
is clothed with pure, perpetual snow and you may
ceve how attractive is the flush OF beauty upon the brow
OF Chmborazo at sunrise and at sunset.
Well nigh mpenetrable walls are formed OF roots oil
the mangroves, which line large portions OF the river
Behind these, the low ands are plantations OF sugar.
OF cocoa and Of rice The broad plains bordeed in
the distance by forests and mountains, the dark green
outlines OF which appear at every turn in the stream In
the rainy the plain through which the Tver WINDS
and the few hills upon its banks are rich emerald
green but in the dry season, the whole surface OF The
earth is Drowned by The intense heat, except lew low
portions which keep vivid green, from uniailng moist
ue, like oases in Arabian desert, and sustain like
them profuse variety OF palms.
On the sides of the river several towns, and nume-
wide, level savanntls, from which arise the
houses OF the popretors OF estates, and the ruder ones
OF the aborers upon the soil ln many places the banks
sandy and shelving and OF bright noon alligalofs
bask them by in the sun and 1t is amusing 10
party of these devouIlng monsters enjoying their
tranquil sieStd aroused by the discharge OF pistol and
terrified by the striking OF the whsling ball near Them,
or upon Of their number, slide INTO the water III
4uick Shiny tracks, like unwiedy logs OF wood suddenly
become animals by the influence OF some spiritual medi-
um. The current of the stream Is 80 violent and
uncomfortable that il would be all over with a per-
son who should have the ill fortune 10 fall IN As
the scenery becomes more beautiful the ar alec
grows pestilential When, in the rainy sea-
son. everything fresh and living green, when The
foliage is most exuberant, and The Charms OF tropical
growth mos, generous and attractive dangerousSSfem
pers prevail MOST the face oil Nature grows Genial
The face OF man grows II seems 10 be the pbys-
cal law IN tropical countries, that human vgo declines
as vegetation becomes more productive and beautiful
There the plain OF the rlyef admirable places
for the cultivation OF cotton, and on the sides OF The
nountans there is abundant pasfurage Tor locks Wool
and cotton could be procured in exhausess supplies,
and there is natural obstruction TO successful manu-
facures. No country in the world could be inde-
pendent OF another Than the republic OF Ecuador but
The and expansion OF lis are hindered by
frequent and caamtous revolutions, which paralyze in
dusry, and make property and life insecure The natural
wealth of the nation is ncacuably great There are
here compressed wi hin ten degrees OF longitude and four
degrees OF latitude, The varied materials Tor those
ses and comforts for which, in other places, the four
quarters of the globe are rsnsacked The soil and the
combine 10 support such animal aud vegetable life as
s needfu or convenient Tor the susenance OF man.
And if the lower districts level with The ocean,
unhealthy times, within few days reach are the noun
famous regions. where the salow cheek may blush
with vgor. and the langud pulses be quickened by cool
breezes.
After taking mules at The small town at the head OF
navigaon for the journey OF about two hundred miles
10 Quto travellers pass thTongh some OF he ioIess seen
in ascending the river luscious ifuts bang within a
hands reach The yellow branches OF the ripe planain
peer from long, wide, waving leaves coffee berries
grow the wayside flowers, trees, and shrubs, pecu-
liar TO tropical regions, abound vines spread every way,
embracing tendrls, and veil the majestic beauty OF the
groves birds, snowwhe or OF rainbow bues, fly grace
fully above the highest trees.
Afterwards the deep and sombre forests yield 10 fertile
hill sides and valleys instead Of the pantan, the pine
apple and the orange, the pear, the apple and the
slrawbery instead OF fields of the tree and OF the
ERGO plant fields OF wheat and OF Indian Trop
zeal birds glance in their flight, but oxen are
poughing the soil instead of venomous serpents in the
marshes and the agaors in the nvef. hocks of sheep
Craze quetly the lofty pastures and dnnk from tae
pure springs of the mountains. As the apparently llim
table forests recede, few scant trees only appear IN
places OF miles upon miles extest These gradatioDs
not in unbroken, ascending scale, but you reach
higher points and descend thence Il lower and then
ascend again, finding not only varieties OF climate, but
these variousy disposed
Nature reves here in profuson of wonders One day
she holds TO your lips The pineapple, which when dyl
ded is of pure and perfect white; on the next she
points 10 you fields green with growing barley and
al hand, others yellow with the ripened grain. Sue
shows To you The ploughman guiding the deep iurows in
the earth, and almost within call OF him. the reaper, busy
with his sickle Now she dccends with you into deep
valleys where the torrent sounds without ceasng
pours it's swollen waters from the mountains where the
intense, pervsding heat cannot make the moist soil
wholly dry-wbere odors like that OF the Vanilla gray
the sense-wheIe flowers are found of every hue and
leaves OF every shapewhere serpens hiss, and the
can wheels his shreking fgbt-whcre fevets are en-
tbroned in bowers OF foliage and exact tolls from travel
lers in burning pains and derous thoughts Then, with
the promise of nvIgoratng health, she aures you up
ward, and upward, and upward, lin narrow and rocky
roads, through mlss and clouds, and sunshine
sandy plains, and up oriuous acclivites the
tops of mountains, and down and up the ravines be-
tween them, until reaching juting peak she points out