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themselves by thinking that the — they might be able to send to Europe 
would materially affect the pric 
* We started idis next Enn: and soon after left the cart-road, sich 
; m L e 
tol e 
fields of lava. The road we now ian , Cleto informed us, was a short eut, but, 
ima d full of large boulders, resting on black mould, in the rainy season 
ass of mud. was very warm m indeed, and, as most of the trees were 
quite 1 easy, as ours a epth of winter, we suffered very much from 
the Wes ». finished : a e bottles of ius brine we carried along with 
us, adt hi thirst "i icis Hog-plums and * u 
of the valleys was full of trees bearing fruits like NM ; and Captain 
Sorel delighted at the ipi pov — to aene some. To his disap- 
rned to be 
u 
r ere gh iv pe 
on the top of a hill, and rejoiced in the name of Hacienda de Pilon. This 
farm struck me as the pate pn kept in the TM of Nicaragua, the prineipal 
xc aee acer ing extremely clean a and comfortable. An evergreen Fig-tree, 
wn of gig gantic ici dst was diain a delicious coolness and 
ae iPod the place 
After leaving Achuapa, a tolerably large village,— 
The road passed Las Tablas, where for the first time we farey ourselves in 
in a fo 
o n 
anks of die s iin Noatak, in latitude 66° 44/ 0” — where Captain Bedford 
regular forest — da a spec: mem arctica 
passing the village of San Juan de la Pri 
The journey thence led to the farm of Bonbon. 
** We left Bonbon early the next morning, and — about three leagues 
more in the hot valleys, the vegetation of which w uc dies uch like that of 
the Pacific coast of 2 Isthmus of Panamá, many of t e species being identi- 
me i ountri ain as in-ridges, 
were once more gre pese by the Pine-trees and a delightfully eool breeze. Here 
I d a species of Oreopanax with la aves, e; a 
purple eain a pink Melast ,an aquilina ; & species of Rhip- 
icum i 
salis grew on the Pine-trees. Saw no and only one monkey, some 
macaws, and "that beautiful bird with i» peek feathers in t tail, the Trogon re- 
