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are bred in the Andes are larger, and produce a 

 longer and finer wool. The Pehuenches, a nation 

 which inhabits a part of these mountains, have cross- 

 ed the breed of the sheep with the goat, and this 

 mixed breed is much larger than the other sheep ; 

 their hair, which is more or less curled, has thefen- 

 ness and the softness of wool, and is frequently two 

 feet long; it resembles much the hair of the Angora 

 goat. 



The goats have also multiplied astonishingly ; 

 they live almost always in the mountains ; their 

 skins are employed for manufacturing morocco, of 

 this much is consumed in the country, and great 

 quantities are sent to Peru. 



Man in Chili enjoys all the advantages which re- 

 sult from a mild unchangeable climate, and those 

 persons who do not shorten their lives by irregulari- 

 ties, attain to a very advanced age. Notwithstanding 

 what M. de Pauw has asserted, I have myself known 

 several old men of a hundred and four, a hundred 

 and five, and one instance even of a hundred and 

 fifteen years of age. It is but a few years since that 

 Don Antonio Boza died there at the age of one hun- 

 dred and six. My grandfather and my great grand- 

 father, both Creoles, lived, the first to the age of 

 ninety-five, the other to ninety-six. These instances 

 are not uncommon among the natives of the country. 

 The women are generally prolific, and there are few 

 countries where they more frequently give birth to 

 tv/ins. This fecundity, and the abolition of some 

 practices which were injurious to the propagation of 



