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JOURNEY ACROSS 



hearing our approach. Here we feasted on the 

 finest figs I ever tasted. They form a most 

 delicious repast in the present sultry days. 



On leaving this post we travelled over a wide 

 plain to Portezuela, a post-hut situated under 

 some red cliffs. As the evening was advancing, 

 and objects became more indistinct, the appear- 

 ance of the plain, undulating up to this ele- 

 vation, seemed like an approach from the 

 sea to the shore; and it is not improbable 

 that at some period, when the waters were dif- 

 ferently distributed over the earth, the waves 

 really washed these sandy rocks, which here 

 form a barrier across the country for a con- 

 siderable distance. 



We had met with nothing, hitherto, like 

 rocks, or even stones. The paving stones of 

 the streets are brought to Buenos Ayres from 

 the island of Martin Garcia, at the mouth 



