URUGUAY. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



general and almost entire absence of trees in Banda 

 Oriental (or Uruguay) is remarkable. Some of the 

 rocky hills are partly covered by thickets, and on the banks 

 of the larger streams, 

 especially to the north 

 of Las Minas, willow- 

 trees are not uncom- 

 mon. Near the Arroyo 

 Tapes I heard of a 

 wood of palms; and 

 one of these trees, of 

 considerable size, I saw 

 near the Pan de Azu- 

 car (Sugar-Loaf), in lat- 

 itude thirty -five de- 

 grees. These, and the 

 trees planted by the 

 Spaniards, offer the 

 only exceptions to the general scarcity of wood. Among the 

 introduced kinds may be enumerated poplars, olives, peach, 

 and other fruit-trees: the peaches succeed so well that they 



OLIVE BRANCH. 



