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flowers of Europe are not found to answer well 

 here, although, if properly attended to, they 

 grow better at Monte Video. 



The ombu tree seems to be nearly the only 

 large indigenous wood in this open country 

 about Buenos Ayres, and it is only valuable 

 for its shade in the summer. The fig and 

 peach tree, now common every where, are 

 said to have been first introduced by the 

 Jesuits. There is a strawberry of an enormous 

 size, but it has not much flavour. It was 

 brought here from Chili, but whether it is 

 originally from Europe I have not learned. 

 Birds, animals, and fish, in different countries, 

 have a strong resemblance to each other, in 

 their separate and respective classes; but, at 

 Buenos Ayres I have seen nothing except 

 the swallow, which is like the species in 

 England, in size and shape. Of partridges 



