PASS THROUGH A WOOD. 



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which we had a heavy drag to get through. 

 Immediately on clearing it^ the hills of the Sierra 

 de Cordova broke upon our view^ the first we 

 had seen since leaving Buenos Ayres : as the 

 sun set upon them, we could just perceive their 

 tops were covered with snow. Passing a neat 

 little chapel, Capella del Rosaria/' we ar- 

 rived at the post of Punta de Agua at sunset, 

 making only nineteen leagues. 



