Excerpt from Brazil, Stray Notes From Bahia: Being Extracts From Letters, &C., During a Residence of Fifteen Years The late james wetherell was, from an early age, fond of all subjects in which the wonderful works of Nature were depicted. Possessing talents of no ordinary kind, but concealed by innate modesty and a retiring dis position, few things escaped his critical notice no flower that grew, or insect that crawled, were objects of indiffer ence to him - no habit or custom peculiar to the country in which he happened to live escaped his eye, which was always in search of something by which to add to his little stock of experimental knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.