Identifier: sketchofmadeirac00harcuoft (find matches)
Title: A sketch of Madeira : containing information for the traveller, or invalid visitor
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Harcourt, Edward Vernon, 1825-1891
Subjects: Botany -- Madeira Islands Madeira Madeira (Madeira Islands) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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o pay unless they were built withhis permission. The tenant, when he obtains leave to builda house, is generally obliged to pay annually a trifling ac-knowledgment to his landlord, such as a fowl, a dozen eggs, chap, v.) LANDLORD AND TENANT. 109 or the like. The bemfeitorias are valued by two officersappointed by the camera, who generally put an excessiveprice on everything; a practice which, where the landlordis poor, goes far towards creating a perpetuity of tenure.The tenant can sell his improvements without asking hislandlords consent, and the landlord can dispose of his groundwithout communicating his intention to the tenant. Government takes a tithe of the proceeds of an estate,before the division is made between landlord and tenant. The contracto de colonia, or tenure, does not finish withthe death of the landlord or tenant, but continues with theirheirs, and with such as may purchase the land or the im-provements upon it. CHAP1EE VI. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF MADEIRA.
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From a Sketch by Lady Su&an Vernon Harcourt. Bananas. Seepage 114. CHAPTER VI. ON THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF MADEIRA. Sweet contemplation elevates my sense,While I survey the works of Providence.O could the Muse in loftier strains rehearseThe glorious Author of the Universe,My soul should overflow in songs of praise,And my Creators name inspire my lays! Gay. Fire on the south of the island.—Forests on the north side.—Dragon tree.—Urze.— Palm trees.— Opuntia.—Fruits and Vegetables.—Flowers.—Plants peculiar to Madeira. — Birds. — Reptiles.— Insects.— Fishes.—Turtles.—Corals.—Medusae Luminosity of the ocean.—Geology. So many exotics have been introduced into Madeira, into asoil and climate favourable to a great range of vegetation,tbat it is now difficult to draw any line between those whichare really indigenous and others. FIRE ON THE SOUTH OF THE ISLAND. On the south side, the woods have never raised their headssince the great fire which dest

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