Excerpt from On the Indian Hills, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Coffee-Planting in Southern India Appeared more dense and matted than farther to the north, great creepers swinging from tree to tree, while long rattan canes - a hundred springing from one root - climbed hither and thither, and overhung the road in festoons. Here, too, the pathway - for it was no longer a made road - ran along the top of a ridge, and although the valleys on either side were not discernible, the trees had clearly felt the in fluence of the wind; for ...
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Excerpt from On the Indian Hills, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Coffee-Planting in Southern India Appeared more dense and matted than farther to the north, great creepers swinging from tree to tree, while long rattan canes - a hundred springing from one root - climbed hither and thither, and overhung the road in festoons. Here, too, the pathway - for it was no longer a made road - ran along the top of a ridge, and although the valleys on either side were not discernible, the trees had clearly felt the in fluence of the wind; for there were many dead trunks lying about in all stages of decay, with green moss spreading a pall over them, and pale, scentless white orchids shooting up, fresh and beautiful, from the rotten wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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