Excerpt from Notes of a Botanist, Vol. 2 of 2: On the Amazon AndesLo to the wintry winds the pilot yieldsHis bark careering o'er untrodden fields, Now on Atlantic waves he rides afarWhere Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.Campbell.The sounding CataractHaunted me like a passion, the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to meAn appetite, a feeling, and a love.Wordsworth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.