156 A, Fendler on Prairies. 
which this process is going on; the reeds giving gradually way to th 
smaller grasses, Here the great number of half-burnt yet standing trunks 
tion, until their Jast green leaf has turned brown, and then they stand 
like tall and slender pillars, the mournful remnants of a once stately . 
forest.” 
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raising heated columns of air, disperses clouds and fogs, as may 
otten be seen at Colonia Tovar with clouds moving across t 
era, a humid, rainy, cloudy climate of a more equable tempera 
ture, and resembling in many respects that of the equatorial 
