Note 307 — PART II.
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The bridges over many deep chasms amongst the Andes are pendulous, and formed only of the fibres of equinoctial plants. Their tremulous motion is thus alluded to in one of the stanzas of Gertrude of Wyoming:—
“Anon some wilder portraiture he draws, Of nature’s savage glories he would speak; The loneliness of earth, that overawes, Where, resting by the tomb of old Cacique, The lama-driver on Peruvia’s peak Nor voice nor living motion marks around, But storks that to the boundless forest shriek, Or wild-cane arch, high flung o’er gulf profound, That fluctuates when the storms of El Dorado sound.”