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CONTEXTS 



Goods all left in the forest ! Sugar-mill on Rio Verde 

 -Reached Barios General account of the forest of 

 Canelos Second visit to Mount Abitagua Notes on 

 the vegetation of the forest of Canelos . '35 



CHAPTER XIX 



BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS IN THE ANDES OK ECUAD 

 AT BANDS AM) \MMATO 



List of Excursions Letter to Mr. Bentham Spruce's sad 

 position at Barios awaiting his goods from the forest H<>\\ 

 he collected mosses on the road New ferns in abundance 

 Description of Banos Grand cone of Tunguragua 

 Paper unobtainable European genera of plants Letter 

 to Mr. Teasdale Banos, its hot baths, visitors, and earth- 

 quakes To Ambato Its situation and surrounding 

 Manners and customs of the people Effects of sand 

 storms To Riobamba- -Dr. James Taylor Views of 

 Chimborazo -- Mountain tra\cl Market-day -Great 

 mountains round it Great cataract of Guandisagua 

 Society in Ambato Botanical letter to Mr. Benthain 

 To Sir \V. Hooker, mostly about Kerns To Mr. I'.cn- 

 tham on probable number of species in the Ama/on v.il 



-Spruce's grief at passing new plants ungathered To 

 Sir \V. Hooker, about mosses, etc. To Mr. Benthain. 

 about the Venezuelan collections and its rich rivers un<-\ 

 plored -His great indebtedness to Mr. Benthain T<> Mr. 

 Teasdale about his journeys in the high Anclc^ r.c.uitiful 

 Gentians -Why they cannot be grown in England An 

 escape from a condor Wi>h<-> England p- tin- 



Ama/on valley . 



CHAPTER X\ 



AMMATO AND I HI. < IM IK >NA FORES! "I \' ' 



Letter to Mr. Benthain War with I'cru 



forest of Pallatanga The v.arm fmc^- (.. 

 botanically than the mountain- Lettei to Mr. : 



