INDEX. 



Acacia Cavenia, 157 

 Aconcagua, 192 



valley, vegetation of, 195 



Adesmia, 182 



Agassiz, Professor Alexander, 342 



Ajulla, Promontory of, 51 



Albatross, 215 



Alligators, 41 



Alpine zone in Andes, 91 



Amancais, 71 



Amatapi, Sierra, 52 



Ancud, 145 



Andean Flora, Alpine zone, 104 



, divisions of the, 104 



, European genera common to, 



lOI 



Andean railways, 63 

 Andes, 49 



, Alpine zone in, 91 



, cactoid plant in, 92 



, Chilian, view of, 183 



, climate of Peruvian, 99 



, CompositcE in, 102 



, cosmopolitan weeds in, loi 



Aneroid barometers, 353, 354 

 Angol, 213 

 Antarctic beech, 256 



Flora, range of, 219 



Anthopteriis Wardii, 34 

 Anticosti, 273 

 Apoquinto, baths of, 188 

 Araucanian Indians, 212 



, language of, 213 



Araucaria Brasiliensis, 311 



Argentaria, climate of, 300 



, emigration to, 298, 299 



, forests of, 295 



, progress of agriculture, 298 



, frontier of Chili and, 258 



Arica, vegetation of, 121 



Arnicria maritima, var. aiidina, 



263 

 Artichoke, wild, 168 

 Atacama, desert of, 124, 131 

 Atlantic, colour of, 7 



, summer temperature of, 362 



, temperature of, 5 



, winds of, 345 



Ayacucho ziedivashiY), 1 18 

 Azores, 5 



Baccharis, 157 

 Bahia Blanca, 298, 357, 358 

 Bahia de Todos Santos, 346 

 Baillonia spartioidcs^ 202 

 Balmacedo, Don F., 191 

 Banda Oriental, 281 



, vegetation of, 293 



Barbadoes, absence of venomous 

 snakes in, 14 



, black population of, 1 1 



harbour police, 9 



planters, 13 



, productiveness of, 8 



Barometer, high, 4 



, tables for, 4 



Beagle Channel, 273 

 Belem, Tower of, 363 



