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serving cultivation. Those that are similar or vary 

 but little from the European trees, or vi^hich are to 

 be met M^ith in almost all botanical gardens, I shall 

 merely enumerate, reserving my descriptions for 

 such as are less known, or distinguishable for some 

 peculiarity. 



The vallies of the Andes produce naturally the 

 white cedar and the red, called alerces^ the cypress, 

 the pine, and the pellinos, which is a species of oak. 

 All these trees grow to a great height and size, but 

 none of them can compare in that respect with the 

 red* cedar which, in the Archipelago of Chiloe, 

 grows so large, that a single tree will frequently fur- 

 nish from six to eight hundred boards of twenty 

 feet in length. 



In the other parts of Chili are found the willow, 

 the molle, the Peruvian taper or cherry, the wild 

 orange, the fioripondioy the white cinnamon, the 

 carob tree, the maqui a species of cornel, the luma 

 a species of myrtle, the mulberry, the chirimoya^ 

 and the tamarind. The island of Juan Fernandes 

 produces the red, yellow and white sandal, the yel- 

 low wood, or fagus lutea^ and a tree whose genus I 

 ^m unacquainted with, that produces a species of 

 pepper inferior to that of the East Indies. 



spars. The bamboo reed is likewise yery common in every part 

 the country. — Frazier^s Voyage, vol. i. 



* On my passage from Chili to Europe I observed that the 

 water which was hi casks made of the red cedar kept sweet for a 

 much longer time than that in the others. This water had ac- 

 quired a red tinge, but the taste was not in the least changed, and 

 i't^appea-red to be. as fresh as if just taken from the fountain. 



