fcbiTH AM&RIcA* 3 S 5 
In the evening this furprifingiy heavy tempeft 
jpuifed-off, we had a ferene iky and a pieafant cool 
night; having had time enough to colleft a great 
quantity of wood and Pine knot to feed our fires 
and keep up a light in our camp, which was a lucky 
precaution, as we found' it abfolutely necefiary to 
dry our clothes and warm ourfeives, for all our 
fkins and bedding were call over the packs of mer- 
chandize to prevent them and our provifion fron* 
being injured by the deluge of rain. Next day was 
cool and pieafant, the air having recovered its elaf- 
titity and vivific fpirit; I found myfelf cheerful 
and invigorated ; indeed all around us appeared re- 
animated, and nature prefented her cheerful coun- 
tenance ; the vegetables frniled in their blooming* 
decorations and fparkling cryftalline dew-drops. 
The birds fung merrily in the groves, and the alert 
roe- buck whittled and bounded over the ample meads 
and green turfy hills. After leaving our encamp- 
ment, we travelled over a delightful territory, pre- 
fenting to view variable fylvan fcenes, confuting of 
chains of low hills affording high forefts, with ex- 
pand ve favannas, Cane meadows, and lawns between. 
Watered with rivulets and glittering brooks. To- 
wards evening we came to camp on the banks of 
Pintchlucco, a large branch of the Chata Uche river. 
The next day’s journey was over an uneven hilly 
country, but the foil generally fertile, and of a 
quality and fituation favourable to agriculture and 
grazing, the fummits of the ridges rough with fer- 
ruginous rocks, in high cliffs and fragments, Mat- 
tered over the furface of the ground : obferved 
alfo high cliffs of ftiff reddifh brown clay, with veins 
or flrata of ferruginous {tones, either in detached 
maffes or conglomerated nodules or hematites with 
veins or tnalfes of ochre. 
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