The view was fine: but the northern range, though visible, was rather too indistinct, and the mainland was not to be seen at all.' Nevertheless, the panorama from the top of Montserrat is at once the most vast, and the most lovely, which I have ever seen.

And whosoever chooses to go and live there may buy any reasonable quantity of the richest soil at 1 pounds per acre.
Then down off the ridge, toward the northern lowland, lay a headlong old Indian path, by which we travelled, at last, across a rocky brook, and into a fresh paradise.
I must be excused for using this word so often: but I use it in the original Persian sense, as a place in which natural beauty has been helped by art.

An English park or garden would have been called of old a paradise; and the enceinte of a West Indian house, even in its present half-wild condition, well deserves the same title.

That Art can help Nature there can be no doubt.

'The perfection of Nature' exists only in the minds of sentimentalists, and of certain well- meaning persons, who assert the perfection of Nature when they wish to controvert science, and deny it when they wish to prove this earth fallen and accursed.