Botany. 



us, which may be profitably substituted to those brought from 

 Europe*. 



Such are the advantages which the study of botany holds out 

 to the convenience, . the inteUigence, and the innocent recrea- 

 tion of man. The Peruvian territory is replete with the pro- 

 du6tions of the vegetable kingdom ; and when the acknow- 

 ledged talents of the native Peruvians, in whatever regards 

 natural history are considered, there is not any reason to 

 doubt but that every progress will be made in botanic re- 

 searches. 



A fa6l conne6led with the botany of Peru ought not to be 

 passed over in this place. It is well known that the animals 

 named llamas, pacos, vicunas, and huanacos, are natives of 

 the lofty mountains of Peru ; but a singular particular, which 

 has not been adverted to by any naturalist, is, that although 

 the above mountains extend, under the denomination of Cor- 

 dilleras, to ten degrees of north latitude, with pretty nearly 

 the same proportions of elevation, cold, &c. these animals do 

 not pass from the line towards -the north, and are conse- 

 quently not to be found in the provinces of Quito, Santa 

 Fe, &c. where the climate, of the mountains at least, is ana- 



* In Peru there are several kinds of hyperkum., senna, valerian, &c. which are 

 employed with efficacy by the Indians in several of their establishments in Sierra, 

 but which are rejedted in the Capital, where a blind preference is given to those 

 imported from distant countries. 



f Franco Davila, a native of Peru, rendered himself celebrated in Paris by his 

 cabinet of natural history, the descriptive catalogue of which, published by him, is 

 justly appreciated by the learned world. After a residence of twenty years in the 

 French capital, he passed to Madrid, by order of Charles III. of Spain, and there 

 founded the cabinet of natural history, of wbieh he had the dire<5lion until his death. 



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