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THE ANBES. 



It is not in this region that the tea-plant is 

 founds of which Falkner gives an account. In 

 Bohvia, east of the Andes, and I beheve in 

 some of the Argentine provinces to the north 

 of Mendoza, a nutritive plant is extensively 

 cultivated by the Indians called Coca, from 

 which the government of Bolivia receive a 

 considerable revenue. General Lamar once 

 effected a retreat of fifteen days with no other 

 aliment for his troops. 



After winding among the low hills, we 

 descended again to the plain, a level flat up 

 to the foot of the Andes. Our course in 

 the morning had been almost due south, but 

 we now changed it, and advanced straight to- 

 wards the mountains, in a westerly direction ; 

 still forty miles from their base. 



On descending into the plains from the last 

 hill I observed, at a considerable distance from 



