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day, we reckon upon having performed the 936 

 miles in ten days — not riding less, on an average, 

 than ninety miles a day. But the baggage has 

 been already nine days longer on the road than 

 we were. In the mean time, I am by no means 

 sorry to rest at Mendoza, which is an agree- 

 able place. There is nothing very remark- 

 able in the architecture of its churches or its 

 houses. They are all built of sun-baked bricks 

 or adobes — the materials most in use in Chili 

 and Mendoza ; although in Buenos Ayres and 

 Monte Video, the common red brick is now 

 generally substituted. Many of the streets are 

 not whitewashed, and the bare brown walls have 

 a most dingy and unfinished effect. 



The alameda is between double rows of tall 

 shady poplars, affording a delightful promenade. 

 It borders a rapid stream, supplied by the melt- 

 ing snow of the mountains, which is conducted 



