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Oct. 9th. Left Suta about eight o'clock, 

 for Liva, accompanied by the Juez Poli- 

 tico and his wife. On the way we visited 

 his farm-house, and found there a great 

 quantity and variety of fruits; amongst 

 others the cherry-moyeau tree, which, in 

 this district, yields fruit considered equal 

 to the cherry-moyeau of Peru. The tree, 

 or rather shrub, grows to the height of fif- 

 teen or sixteen feet, throwing out many 

 branches close to the ground : it is pretty 

 to the eye, and begins to bear when four 

 years old. 



At noon we arrived at Liva. We im- 

 mediately procured a guide, and set off to 

 visit what were said to liave been worked 

 as silver mines ; but, after climbing with 

 much labour over the high, and almost 

 perpendicular mountains, in the rear of the 

 town, we could find nothing to repay us 



