MENDOZA. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



MENDOZA. 



A loss and recovery — An overthrow — La Rosa — Im- 

 proving aspect of the country and the people — 

 Handsome treatment — First sight of Mendoza — Arrival 

 there — Quick travelling — Mendoza — Its architecture 

 — Public promenade — The Andes — Equestrian habits 

 of the people — Mendoza wine — Products of the soil — 

 Superiority of Mendoza to Buenos Ayres — An agree- 

 able arrival — Silver mines of these regions. 



Mendoza. — Here we are safe across the 

 Pampas. On quitting the place last referred 

 to, we proceeded on to a post-hut, thirty miles 

 from a place called La Rosa, where we were 



