ACCOUNT OF ANTUCO IN 
Duby says, “in umbrosis et dumetis 
montanis Alpium et Vogesorum.” In 
Germany it is only mentioned as growing 
in Carniola. Pollini speaks of it as not 
rare in the Tyrol and the North of Italy, 
“in sylvis et dumetis collinis,” and the 
hills of this district are not generally bog- 
gy. If an English plant at all, I should 
rather have expected to see it on the warm 
hills of the South, than in the wet and cold 
of the North. 
From Penrith I again went to Blencarn, 
and this time succeeded in ascending Cross 
Fell. The highest brow of the mountain 
is a bank of loose grit stones. The sum- 
mit is cushioned with Zrichostomum lanu- 
ginosum ; Nardus stricta, Festuca ovina, 
and Agrostis vulgaris, are the Grasses 
which chiefly grow between the cushions. 
The highest and most plentiful springs are 
towards the East and South-east, where the 
view stretches over the upper part of Tees- 
dale, a dreary region; indeed, from this 
eminence, on three sides of us, we see no- 
thing but a dismal prospect of moor and 
bog. I found Epilobium alsinifolium, but 
m small quantity, and a few other plants, 
such as Rhodiola rosea, Draba incana, a 
Hieracium ?, Galium pusillum, Cys- 
tea fragilis, and Asplenium viride, all on 
some limestone rocks at the head of the 
little Gill which se parates Cross Fell from 
Dun Fell, and Cumberland from West- 
moreland. I would recommend any Bo- 
_ tanist wishing to ascend the mountain to 
take this gill as his guide. I returned by 
Culgaith. The moor, mentioned as the 
Station of two or three plants in the Bo- 
tanist’s Guide, is a nearly level tract of 
barren soil, which has been inclosed, but 
for the most part not cultivated. 
I must here end my journal, for the 
slight view I allowed myself of Scottish 
Botany will have no interest, because it 
decides nothing, and I believe the only 
new habitat I observed of plants already 
known, is the station of the Saxifraga 
cespitosa of English Botanists, among the 
rocks near the summit of Ben Nevis. 
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SOME ACCOUNT OF THE VOL- 
CANO AND VALLEY OF ANTU- 
CO, IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES. 
Translated from Dr. Poeppig’s Travels. 
THE valley of Antuco, containing the 
highest inhabited place of the Southern 
Andes, extends from East to West, and 
is about seven German miles long, of 
inconsiderable breadth throughout, and 
divided into two nearly equal parts by 
the River Laxa. At its lower extremity, 
a low chain of mountains separates it from 
the Plains of Yumbel and Los Angelos, at 
the East it suddenly rises and becomes 
narrow, and in this direction is almost 
perfectly closed by the broad foot of the 
Volcano, so that between it and the line 
of mountains opposite, there is only space 
for the rapid river and a narrow pass, 
through which access is obtained into the 
Indian Country. The ground, in many 
places, would not repay the trouble of 
cultivating it, as it resembles the dry 
of a river, and is covered with volcanic 
stones ; but the sides of the mountain and 
the plain that stretches at the foot of them, 
maintain their character for great fertility. 
Sometimes these terrace-like platforms rise 
one above another, as natural meadows in 
the midst of mountain woods, their luxu- 
riant vegetation attesting the depth of the 
soil Every where, brooks run down from 
the mountains, of which the lovely green 
peaks are over-topped by still loftier sum- 
mits, covered with eternal snow. The 
mountains are so high, even in the im- 
mediate vicinity of the village, that the 
bold brow of the Pico de Pilque is only 
attainable by several hours' ascent, while 
further up the valley they rise to even more 
gigantic elevations, till at last, the indented 
Gletschen, the Silla Velludo, and the black 
cone of the volcano of Antuco, close this 
extraordinary coup d'au. The situation 
of the village itself is most picturesque, 
being perched on a lofty ascent, whose top 
is ornamented with beautiful Beech woods. 
In a clear summer morning, the Natu- 
ralist, unaided by any kind of road, ex- 
plores these elevated situations with the 
THE PERUVIAN ANDES. 
