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!I?he following day I "botanized on Co 
#1 
o, where Martins and Raddi "botanized 
more than a htmdred years "before. Thoiagh a cog road runs to near the s^jmmit the 
moTontain sides have not been devastated, dense forest and climhing "bamhoos still 
flourish. Ahout half way up is this old stone aqueauct still in use. Martitts 
tells of following this heautiful trail. 
1967. 
There is a fP.mous "botanical garden at the foot of Oorcovado- this peak 
in the "baclsgrotind. 
-'1 
/fit I Q 
196?. 
'4 .^'^^.r'"^- 
k few days later I took a 3}utch coffee ship to Perwamhuco . fhis is a 
mangrove swaii^. Mangroves are to the coasts of the Tropics what Spartina is to 
the coasts of temt>erate regions. 
fhe trunks and "branches send out arching stilt 
roots, ever advancing as the raud flat is "built up "by the silt and sand carried in "by 
the tide and dropped "because the mangroves retard the force of the waves. 
