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ground and as I reached the top, the sea lay in front of 

 me and in a deep lovely bay on my right the town of 

 Puerto Montt. In front some small islands were visible 

 and in the distant haze was the contour of Chiloe. 



It was a lovely sight. The town itself is built as nearly 

 all South-American towns, on the square system, and the 

 houses are all built of wood and sheet iron and are mostly 

 one story high. 



The streets were wide and dusty and the "trottoirs" 

 were raised and kept by a square wooden beam on which 

 I noticed horseshoes fastened in such a way as to form 

 rings, and I afterwards saw that the use of them was to 

 fasten the saddlehorses to them, whilst their masters were 

 about their business. 



The inn of Puerto Montt contained a small courtyard 

 in which a Gull, a White Egret and a female Ashyheaded 

 Goose looked very sad and out of place. 



Leaving Puerto Montt I went westwards to visit a 

 German settler who owned a property about Vj^ hour 

 away. The road led again after I had ascended some higher 

 ground amongst the ghastly looking remains of burnt 

 forest. I had been told to follow the road until I passed 

 two lakes and eventually I reached the first of the two. 

 This would have been a lovely spot from its shape, if 

 everything round it had not been burnt down. 



After a while I passed the second lake and shortly after 

 this the road entered a beautiful unharmed forest. 



I had been told to look for a gate and after a while 

 the gate appeared and passing through it I entered the 

 forest which still showed all its original beauty. 



The road was nothing else than the bed of a stream 

 which after the Chilian fashion of streams had for some 

 reason or other changed its course, and was winding through 

 the forest in a most eccentric way. 



The ground was rather damp and many of the old trees 

 were covered with Ferns and Lichens, some were white 

 and hanging down in fringes, others brownish green growing 

 in cushions and patches. Fuchsias were very luxuriant and 



Notes from the Leyden ^luseum, "Vol. XXXV. 



