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Updated: June 13, 2025
But I shall give the details of this `feat' as they happened. "It was in the autumn season the most beautiful season of the forest when the frondage obtains its tints of gold, orange, and purple. I was abed in the house of my friend, but was awakened out of my sleep by the `gobbling' of wild turkeys that sounded close to the place.
In several places whole trees were torn up by their roots, and those, too, of considerable size. This the elephant sometimes does to get at their foliage, which upon such trees grows beyond the reach of his proboscis. By prostrating them of course he gets their whole frondage within easy distance of his elastic nose, and can strip it off at pleasure.
A face smooth-skinned, with a tinge of golden-brown cheeks of purplish red a nose slightly aquiline, with nostrils of spiral curve eyes like those of the Egyptian antelope a forehead white and high, above bounded by a band of shining black hair, and surmounted by a coronet of scarlet plumes such was the head that I saw rising above the green frondage of the cotton-woods!
Look forth on the forest ere autumn wind scatters Its frondage of scarlet, and purple, and gold: That forest, through which the great "Father of Waters" For thousands of years his broad current has rolled! Gaze over that forest of opaline hue, With a heaven above it of glorious blue, And say is there scene, in this beautiful world, Where Nature more gaily her flag has unfurled?
A night-ride through the golden tropical forest, when the moon is bathing its broad and wax-like frondage when the winds are hushed and the long leaves hang drooping and silent when the paths conduct through dark aisles and arbours of green vine-leaves, and out again into bright and flowery glades is one of those luxuries that I wish we could obtain without going beyond the limits of our own land.
Saw the Dreams of the Sky, scudding mockeries of ridged foam, and shadowy stratification of capes and coasts and promontories long-drawn out, and imageries, multicolored, of mountain frondage, and sierras whitening above sierras, and phantom islands ringed around with lagoons of glory;
Fields of green, and forests of darker green; here and there patches of yellow, and belts of olive-coloured leaves; at intervals a sheet of silver the reflection from a placid lake, or the bend of some silent stream was visible upon the imposing picture at my feet. A broad belt of forest, dotted with the lifelike frondage of the palm, swept up to the foot of the hill.
Thus every limb, and branch, and twig, and every delicate, perennial frondage of fir and hemlock, gathered an ever-increasing adornment of clearest crystal. And thus it was that the rabbit in the fir thicket slept dry through the storm, the branches above him having been transformed into a roof of ice.
The outlines of the leaves, their breadth, their glowing colours all reveal this. The eye roams with delight over a frondage that partakes equally of the gold and the green. It revels along waxen leaves, as those of the magnolia, the plantain, and the banana. It is led upward by the rounded trunks of the palms, that like columns appear to support the leafy canopy above.
He now raised his eyes, and appeared to scrutinise the trees that grew around the glade. His gaze rested upon a large live-oak standing at the inner entrance of the avenue, and whose long horizontal limbs stretched over the open ground. The top branches of this tree were covered thickly with its evergreen frondage, and laced with vines and tillandsia formed a shady canopy.
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