20 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



for the natural history of this country j and many 

 doubts have still to be cleared up. * 



With respect to the manners of the inhabitants, 

 the obliging, incomparable hospitality of the supe- 

 rior classes, and the state of the colony, we can 

 only refer to the accounts of La Peyrouse and 

 Vancouver. We found only a change in the dress 

 of the women, as described by the former, and of 

 which a picture is found in his atlas. Since within 

 these eight or ten years, it has given place to our 

 European fashions, after the newest of which tlie 

 ladies eagerly inquired j and the dress of the men 

 is only distinguished by the Araucanian poncho, 

 and the broad-brimmed straw hat. t 



But, amidst the cheerful and easy society which 



* Louis Feuillee, Journal des Observations Physiques, Ma- 

 thematiqucs, et Botaniques, faites dans rAmeriqueMeridionale. 

 Paris, 1714 — 25, 4to, 



Molina, Saggio suUa Storia Naturale del Chili. Bologna, 

 1782. 8vo. Secunda Edizion Bologna, 1810. 4to. does not clear 

 up what was left obscure in the first edition. 



Ruitz et Pavon, Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis prodromus. 

 Madriti, 1794. Roniae, 1799. Systema Vegetabilium Fl. Per. 

 et Chili. Madriti, 1798. 



Flora Peruviana et Chilensis. Mad. 1798 et 99. The Eryn- 

 gium rostratum, Cav. is not the Eryngium growing near 

 Talcaguano. 



-j- The poncho, is a longish four-cornered covering, striped, 

 length-wise, with riband, like ornaments, of a particular kind 

 of woollen cloth, in the middle of which is a slit to put the 

 head through ; the two ends hang down before and behind. 

 Chili formerly received the fashions from Lima ; but the Chilian 

 poncho is worn even in Peru. 



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