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Modes of Travelling on the Amazons Historical Sketch of the Early Explorations of the River Preparations for Voyage Life on Board a Large Trading Vessel The narrow channels joining the Para to the Amazons First Sight of the Great River Gurupa The Great Shoal Flat-topped Mountains Santarem Obydos
To what a superb size the Amazon had now developed as already this monarch of rivers gave signs of opening out like a sea! Plants from eight to ten feet high clustered along the beach, and bordered it with a forest of reeds. Porto de Mos, Boa Vista, and Gurupa, whose prosperity is on the decline, were soon among the places left in the rear.
At 11 a.m. we arrived at Gurupa, a small village situated on a rocky bank thirty or forty feet high. Here we landed, and I had an opportunity of rambling in the neighbouring woods, which are intersected by numerous pathways, and carpeted with Lycopodia growing to a height of eight or ten inches, and enlivened by numbers of glossy blue butterflies of the Theclidae or hairstreak family.
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