In the temperate zones the case is different the vegetation there is not so dark or so rich, and hence the rays of the declining sun, tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow color, add most to the beauties of those climes. Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. How great would be the desire in every admirer of nature to behold, if such were possible, the scenery of another planet! Pernambuco is built on some narrow and low sandbanks, which are separated from each other by shoal channels of salt water. The three parts of the town are connected together by two long bridges built on wooden piles. I was refused in a sullen manner at two different houses, and obtained with difficulty from a third, permission to pass through their gardens to an uncultivated hill, for the purpose of viewing the country. I doubt whether in the whole world any other natural structure has so artificial an appearance. These nulliporae, which are hard, very simplyorganized seaplants, play an analogous and important part in protecting the upper surfaces of coralreefs, behind and within the breakers, where the true corals, during the outward growth of the mass, become killed by exposure to the sun and air. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I was present when a kindhearted man was on the point of separating forever the men, women, and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. Such people have generally visited at the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated, and they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils. It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. These losses, however, are at the time partly relieved by the exhaustless delight of anticipating the long wishedfor day of return. When such trifles are mentioned, it is evident that the real grievances, excepting from accidents, of a sealife are at an end. The short space of sixty years has made an astonishing difference in the facility of distant navigation. A yacht now, with every luxury of life, can circumnavigate the globe. Since his voyage a hemisphere has been added to the civilized world.