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steering for a balsa; you turn from side to side and have in vary- 
ing succession all views of the river and shore. Moreover, we 
returned to Girardot in three days, saving four days’ time over 
our next trip u 
From Girardot a day’s train-ride takes one to Bogota, a climb 
to over 2,600 meters. You enter the foothills, ascend a valley, 
and as you rise there i is evidence of increasing moisture till you 
slope wooded, and suddenly saw before us the broad flat floor of 
the Sabana of Bogota. It is nearly 28 miles across this on the 
most level of tracks, and by sunset of the 14th of August we 
were in Bogota. 
After less than a week in Bogota, during which time he accom- 
August le Of his expedition to Medellin and 
his return to New York you know, efore lef ad mad 
one short excursion to the shrub-covered moun sl i 
ain-slope imme- 
diately above the city, and these plants which geographically 
belong to my Second Collection of specimens, mark the terminus 
of Collection I. Collection I, the joint work of Dr. Rusby and 
myself, embraces numbers 1 to 1,316. 
II. To VILLAVICENCIO, AND ABOUT BocotA 
ugust 22, the day following: Dr. Rusby‘s departure, I 
eastern plains, was kept in better condition than those toward 
Neiva. Of course the journey was made by means of pack- 
mules or horses. In each direction five days were consumed. 
The summit of the Cordillera was crossed within a few hours, 
a 
so still in the shrub zone (Temperate Zone) below the paramo. 
