A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, And 1790.
The book A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, And 1790. was written by author Wimpffen, Alexandre-Stanislas, Baron De Here you can read free online of A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, And 1790. book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, And 1790. a good or bad book?
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The country we crolTcd, however wild and favage, was far from being deftitute of charms. For L 202 ] For although one of the principal beauties of a landfcape be the contraft of cultivated with un- cultivated nature ; yet there are certainly beauties of detail, and of character, which appertain exclu,- lively to the latter, and v/hich are never found but in mountainous regions, where they fpring up at every ftep from the variety of afpeds and forms ; from the gradations of light and fhade, and ...from the courfe, now flow^, novv^ rapid, of innumerable ftreams. What you will, however, have fome difficulty. Sir, to believe of a country fo rich as this, in its producflions and its fpecie, is, that of the two kinds of plantations which we palTed from time to time in thefe deferts, one fhewed us only the picfture of indolence in the laft ftage of wretchednefs ; and the other, that of the negligence and diforder of poverty, contrafted with the preteniions of opu- lence diredled by the moft execrable tafte.
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