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his ejaculations should vibrate the atmosphere 

 too muchy and my mule out of its balance, was 

 holding on it, as if an ounce more only thrown 

 over the right or left side, should make us both 

 roll down to a deaths which we are apt to con- 

 template differently, or to talk more freely of, 

 when our passions are stirring within, and warm- 

 ing us, than when they and our body become 

 chilled by an icy wind, and scenery."* Proceed- 

 ing onward, with a gradual descent, we were 

 joined by a troop of ten mules, loaded with mer- 

 chandize, and going to Mendoza ; we soon arrived 

 at the Rio de las Cuevas, which was running 

 down most furiously, and the stones rolling under- 

 neath, made it extremely dangerous to cross. I 

 must observe, that all the rivers on the Mendoza 

 side were much more rapid and dangerous to cross 

 than those on the Chili side, for there are none 

 of any consequence in Chili, excepting the 

 Aconcagua, which is rendered passable by 

 bridges here and there thrown across. It 



Schmidtmeyer's Travels into Chili, &c. page 123. 



