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trees, and covered with gramineous plants. 

 We found the absolute height of the Cuchillo 

 to be 548 toises ; it is consequently 329 toises 

 more elevated than the house of the missionary 

 at Guanaguana. 



Descending from the ridge by a winding path, 

 we entered into a country completely woody. 

 The soil is covered with moss, and a new spe- 

 cies of drosera *, which by it's form reminded us 

 of the drosera of the Alps. The thickness of 

 the forests, and the force of vegetation, aug- 

 mented as we approached the convent of Ca- 

 ripe. Every thing here changes it's aspect, 

 even to the rock that accompanied us from 

 Punte Delgad The calcareous strata become 

 thinner, forming graduated steps, which stretch 

 out like walls, cornices, and turrets, as in the 

 mountains of Jura, those of Pappenheim in Ger- 

 many, and near Orzow in Gallicia. The colour 

 of the stone is no longer of a smoky or bluish 

 gray ; it becomes white : it's fracture is smooth, 

 and sometimes even imperfectly conchoidal. It 

 is no longer the calcareous formation of the 

 Higher Alps, but a formation to which this 

 serves as a basis, and which is analogous to the 

 Jura limestone. In the chain of the Apennines, 

 between Rome and Nocera, I observed this 

 same immediate superposition *}•*. It indicates, 



* Drosera tenella. 



t It is thus, that near Geneva the rock of the Mole, be- 



