APPENDIX. 497 
5. Auerce, the red Cedar of Molina. ‘This tree is only found in Valdivia. 
There is a great deal of’ it, but it grows at a considerable distance from the 
port, in the skirts of the Corderillas. It yields plank of from eight to ten 
yards in length, from.twelve to eighteen inches in breadth, and from. four to 
six in thickness; it is brittle, being liable to split on driving nails into it. It 
is used to plank ships, and for floors and roofs of houses, and lasts well: for 
which reason it is much used, large quantities of it being embarked in Chiloe 
for Conception, Valparaiso, Callao, and other places on the coast. There is 
reason to believe that it would make excellent water-casks; because the 
Abbe Molina says, in his work on the natural history of Chile, published in 
Bologna, 1782, that the water contained in casks made of it, and carried to 
Europe when he went thither, far from having grown bad (while that con- 
tained in other barrels had become rotten several times), acquired a delicate 
taste, and was only accidentally tinged by the colour of the wood ; and staves 
for casks have been furnished to several vessels of war, at their particular 
request. 
6. ALGARoBILLA, is small and delicate; the seed is used to make writing 
ink: it grows in greatest abundance near Rancagua and Guasco. 
7. ALGaRoBa, grows in the dry plains to the northward of the capital 
(St. Iago) ; it grows four yards high, and half'a yard in thickness. It pro- 
duces yellow pods, three inches long and two lines thick, which are eaten by 
sheep, who fatten well on them: the wood lasts very long, even under 
water; and is used for door-sills and thresholds, for axle-trees, and for mills. 
8. ALGopon Gosipium, Cotton, thrives every where, if well treated. That 
of Guasco and Copiapo is the best, on account of its softness and the length 
of its staple. 
9. AtmENDno, Almond, is most abundant in the district of Santiago; it is 
exactly the same with that of Spain, and its fruit is used for the same pur- 
poses: the wood is too brittle for use. 
10. Arayan, Myrtle, is found from Conception to Coquimbo. There are 
two principal kinds; the white, called also cheguen, and the red. Each of 
of these grows to six yards high, and half a yard in girth. The wood is little 
used on account of its crookedness: in medicine it is used as in Spain. Its 
fruit is a black berry, the flesh of which is white and rather dry. The natives 
make a pleasant drink from it. If it were cultivated in walks or pleasure- 
grounds, it would be charming by its beauty and fragrance. 
11. Bettoro, Achras Mammoso, is only found in the neighbourhood of 
38 
