In Front,
Over A Beautifully-Planted Fore-Ground, I Looked Down Upon A Perfect
Sea Of Palms, The Taller Palmyras Lifting Their Proud Heads Above The
Rest, And All So Intermingled With Other Foliage, As To Produce The
Richest Variety Of Hues.
This fine wood, a spur of what may be termed
a forest further to the right, skirted a broad
Plain which stretched
out to the beach, the bright waters beyond expanding and melting
into the horizon, while to the right it was bounded by a hilly ridge
feathered with palm-trees, the whole bathed in sunshine, and forming
altogether a perfect Paradise.
Every period of the day, and every variation in the state of the
atmosphere, serve to bring out new beauties in this enchanting scene;
and the freshness and delicious balm of the morning, the gorgeous
splendour of mid-day, the crimson and amber pomps of evening, and the
pale moonlight, tipping every palm-tree top with silver, produce an
endless succession of magical effects. In walking about the garden and
grounds of this delightful residence, we are continually finding
some new point from which the view appears to be more beautiful than
before. Upon arriving at the verge of the cleft between the two hills,
we look down from a considerable elevation over rocky precipitous
ground, with a village (Mazagong) skirting the beach, while the
prospect, widening, shows the whole of the harbour, with the high
ghauts forming the back-ground.
Turning to the other side, behind the hill which shuts out the sea,
the landscape is of the richest description - roads winding through
thick plantations, houses peeping from embowering trees, and an
umbrageous forest beyond.
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