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height and size^ but none of tliem can compare 

 in that respect with the red* cedarj which, in 

 the Archipelago of Chiloe, grows so large, that 

 a single tree will frequently furnish from six to 

 eiglit hundred boards of twenty feet in length. 



in the other parts of Chili are found the 

 willow,, the 7nollc, the Peruvian taper or cherry^ 

 the wild orange, the jloripondio, the white cin- 

 namon, the carob tree, the maqui a species of 

 cornel, the luma a species of myrtle, the mul- 

 berry, the cliirimoya, and the tamarind. The 

 island of Juan Fernandes produces the red, 

 yellow, and white sandal, the yellow wood, or 

 fagus lutca, and a tree whose genus I am unac- 

 quainted with, that produces a species of pepper 

 inferior to that of the East Indies. 



The /7z('/ge (salix Chilensis) differs from ihc 

 European willow in its leaves, which are entire, 

 slender, and of a yellowish green. This tree 

 yields annually a great quantity of manna; the 

 country people also make use of the bark, 

 which tliey believe possesses a highly febrifugal 

 quality. 



Of the mollc there are two kinds, the common 



* On my passage from Chili to Europe I observed that the 

 water which was in casks made of the red cedar, kept sweet 

 for a much loniier time tiian that in tiie others. This water 

 iiad ac(iiiire(i a red tinge, but tiie taste was not in the least 

 changed, and it appeared to be as fresh as if jusi taken fjoiu 

 tiie fountaiu. 



