The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-05
In the lower regions, where the sun shines.
cultivation smiles perenniaIIy;
Here gentle gales eIernally reside


And the whole year in gay confusion liesf'
Then we have higher level, the pasture
region of the Andes, cold and braeing, with
the cultivation the temperate zone. Then
higher still, where the trees, herbage and
plants make gradual transition from those
of tie second region to low alpine ecraggy
bushes, but a few feet in height, and
whose soil is remarkable for dense
sward Of coarse grass and low herbageous
plant, upon which the Lama and Alpaca
feed. A fourth region lies above slill--ex-
cessively cold, where the traveller ascends
to heghth twice that of any OF the Swiss
passes, and where the lcken itself would
starve. The cresets Of the Cordilleras, un-
Il like those of other mountain ranges, are
some three miles broad. Indeed, one Of
the strange features of this land is. that ey.
cry region has its own plateau, where room
and climate are afforded for its own pecu
1 liar productions. Indeed, it may be sad
with ertire truthfulness Of Peru, that its
SUBMITS are crowned with everlasting win
ter and racked with whirlwinds and storms,
and sometimes by the earthquake, which
does not always eonfne its fports to the sea
coast; its sides are adorned with the garn-
iiture Of spring, resembling s'me parts Of
California, descriptions OF which | have had;
the autumn reposes in its bosom, ever fruit
| fal; while summer with its fierce heats,
doubled by the wild belt Of sand along the
coast, slanbers 1t lis feet. Is not this a
land worth some sea woes to visit?
/ Let me bolster my enthusiasm by a few
facts. Our ladies at home think that they
are doing wonders when they send cacias
tllree feet high 10 the Horticultural exhibi
4 bition; and have seen cacti growing ou'
Of the rocks which overhang Naples Of most
formidable size compared 10 these hot house
beauties. But Iopened my eyes when
read in Temples book, Of forest Of cacti in
Peru, some Of which had trunks more than
-four feet nine inches in circumferencel-
Would not that be a damtyshrab for a flow
er poi? Humboldt, who is no romancer,
saw in the hot climate Of the Anason basin
Eof Peru, orange trees at Haertas de Pueara,
only sixty FIVE feet high, laden with many
! thousand Of their golden fruit! Instead O
rounded tops, they have aspiring branches
{ like d bay tree. How would such q plant
look IN a tub in green house? But why
undertake to be specific. Everything veg
etable in these regions has a magnitude no
only peculiar to the tropics, but ton scale
commensurate with the mountains by which
they are surrounded
| confess to . peculiar enthusiasm abou
j Peru since have begun reading about it
| confess to an irrepressible longing to speat
sometime in the presence Of those giants Q
the Andes, roaring TO the skies, crowned
with eternal SHOWS or overshalowed BY
their canopes Of cloud, / shall mark will
a white stone that day in The calender, wher
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from the paei63, shall obtain my frs
glimpse of these awful majesties Of nature
and ifsI be permitted to reach their highest
/ and look oH from them to the west wherc
the Pacific rolls, shaHtake great pleasure
ii watching for "great old sunsets" and II
transcribipg them, without the fear Of criti
cal man before my eyes?
But in all this, I an antedating and an
tieipating too fast. intended, whenI be-
I gan this letter. but reference to Peru, t
show you that have worthy motive j
gong thither. Since i have bgun this
voyage, its monotony has been relieved by
these bright antieipations. They thronl
NY pnind like spirits, creating a strange dc
sire to feel their reality; and strange fea
lest something untoward may prevent it,
Still, whether the reality shall be mine q
n not, this 1 know, that the hope itself il
: mine andhc who hopes in sincerity, hatl
already more than half ofthe fal6Iment. =
Not only IS all that man sees > part Of him
self, but all that he hopes; for the one is Al
J Eindestructibe gthe other. SAKE, the poet
with whom I spent my last evening at New
! York, has embodied this idea most exqpis
3 itly ID a new poem not yet published whic'
. lie repeated to me; and the sentiment cling
!, to my memory with tbe same freshness a
. when Ne rounded il into verse. S. let vha
> bofalI, Peru with her rich mines ofattrac
! Eliyeaess will ever live IN my mind, whethc
$ I be permitted TO explore them 81 not,
! The voyage thus far has been delightful
! II propitious. There isnothing noteworlh
\ Iin It's incidents, unless It be description Z
! lie ina California steamer (which, i I g
! leisure, attempt before we have IIayanG
y those who have Travelled to the Isthmus
: these steamers, require no description oftli
2 strange characters, old incidents. and peSr
4 liar amusements which flE UP the time.--
We have aboard over seven hundred soul
d Of all ages, races, sexes, colors and eond
y ions Such 4 medly As they make an
such Babel sool The noise Of The ocea
i isalnost drowned BY the noise of chldrer
4 fhe atarrels of servants, the hubbub Of III
! men, llie claltsr oi hishes, and the egerlas
idling thampl thampl of che engine:
/; Atlast has ceased, and olr vessel u