 ... royal palm, become forest aisles of surpassing beauty. The height of the palms is immense, many of them rising more than a hundred and twenty feet in the air. Overtopping thus the other trees, their sweeping noble arches do not exclude the sunlight,...  Gan-Eden: Or, Pictures of Cuba - Сторінка 147автори: William Henry Hurlbert - 1854 - 235 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Murat Halstead - 1896 - 610 стор.
...sweeping noble arches do not exclude the sunlight, which pours through the intervals as through the windows of a cathedral, and illuminates the green...faint with fragrance. A dense grove of orange trees near-by was lighted up through all its recesses by the glowing fruit. Oranges lay all about on the... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1896 - 598 стор.
...sweeping noble arches do not exclude the sunlight, which pours through the intervals as through the windows of a cathedral, and illuminates the green...deep-hued Indian woods. A garden, filled with heavy bjooms of jasmine and roses, and the gorgeous purple Carolina, and a hundred drooping, odorous flowers,... | |
 | Louis A. Pérez - 2001 - 220 стор.
...Hulbert visited the same region several years later. "The cottage of the cafetal,'''' he rhapsodized, "was an elegantly proportioned little tropical mansion,...made the air faint with fragrance. A dense grove of oranges trees near by, was lighted up through all its recesses by the glowing fruit." According to... | |
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