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cularly good station for botany. 



Simethis^ Teucriumpy 



renmcum, and some other plants before enumerated, I got Lathrcsa 

 clandestina, Anarrhintm hellidifolium, Lactuca tenerrima, Ononu 

 mollis, Idnum hirsutum, Orohm sylvaticus, Quercus pubescemj 

 Sisymlrium austriacum, var. acutifoUum, and Arenaria montana, 

 all of which would probably be found about Las Caldas. 



Leaving Las Corales, we again ascend the course of the Bisaya 

 through another gorge penetrating a very hard sandstone, which 

 again opens into another valley, and from this a third and more 



^gnifieent firorgfe leads us to Eeinosa 



railroad 



pass through the two lower defiles ; but the upper ascends too 

 rapidly (1 in 17) for a railroad to follow it, and it will have to 

 make a wide circuit. I observed a Cacalia and two or three other 

 alpine or subalpine plants on some wet rocks in this upper gorge, 

 probably brought down by the torrent, for we are far from having 



an elevation to account 



The 



Reinosa is 3000 feet above the Bay of Biscay, 

 springs of the Bisaya are within two miles from it ; but the town 

 stands on the Ebro, whose nominal source is about five miles 

 distant, I sav nominal, because it annears to me that in this, and 



some other cases, a copious and permanent sprmg receives the 

 Honour of the name, while in fact the highest waters are several 

 miles distant. The highest waters of the Ebro are, I apprehend, 



iwy 



Sierras Albas 



though I am not sure that we see these from Eeinosa. The most 

 conspicuous of those we do see are the Sierras Sejos, which are 



mountains 



ginning of Jxily even on their southern 



unme 



Eeinosa have rounded forms much hke those ol our 



Evfin these retained 



Sussex chalk hills, but on a larger scale. 



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The general appearance of the vegetation at Eeinosa is very dif- 

 ferent from that at Santander, and the climate is very different ; 

 very cold in the winter with immense quantities of snow, while 



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My first 



hills 



*ion. Here 



and 



autiful blue Unum, which, however, I found in much greater 

 rfection in mv walk the next day on the north side of Eeinosa. 



It is, as well as I can 



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character 



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