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TOBACCO Peculiarly fine kind produced at Quixos 



How prepared 203 



TROOLY-TREE A broad umbrageous leaf, twenty feet 



in length ........ 91 



ULLOA, DON Adventure of, mentioned in connexion 



with the plants and animals of the Andes . . 32 



VEGETABLE WORLD Change in, produced by the intro- 

 duction of wild horses into Brazil ... 87 



VEGETABLES Three zones of, extending up the Andes 



Trees and plants peculiar to each . . . 31 



VEGETATION Progress of, from the regions of perpetual 



snow to the tropics . . . . . .126 



VICTORIA REGINA A splendid water-plant discovered 



in the river Berbice . ..... 43 



VICUGNA An elegant animal, smaller and swifter than 

 the Lamas, and common to Peru Method of en- 

 trapping it Mentioned in connexion with the 

 Cochineal insect and Nopal . . . .197 



VIGAHUA Graceful one-leaved plant, growing in the 



sheltered valleys of the Andes .... 30 



VINEGAR-TREE 128 



VOLCANOES, PLAIN OF Singular and romantic spot 

 beautiful scenery Frequent eruptions of the vol- 

 canoes ........ 169 



WAPITI Different species of Separate in their locali- 

 ties 223 



WOLVERINE 65 



