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fertile, ans quite open, with few scattered trees. At the 
time I was in there many of the trees were standing in several 
inches of ee their branches thickly covered by a close clinging 
Rhipsalis. Here the majority of the opuntias were also standing 
in water. this time the water in the river had subsided very 
little but, being anxious to get into the hills where Dr. Spegaz- 
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guide's advice as he was considered an expert in such matters, 
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command 
Going around to Jujuy, capital of the similarly named province 
I found the place to be situated among bright green hills, ap- 
parently quite fertile. Towering over all, however, were the 
distant mountain peaks with their snow-capped summits 
engine leaves us and a special one provided with a system of cogs 
takes a position on the back of the train and starts to push us 
up a very steep grade on a wretched railroad. Soon the green 
disappears absolutely and one finds himself surrounded with a 
high picturesque hill of several colors and it is evident that one 
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ently passed through a furnace. Again provided with an 
ordinary engine we continued northward, still up grade, but not 
so severe, through a panorama of various-colored fantastic hills 
