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dred and thirty-five toises above the level of the ocean 
‘perahire ofThisM ' 0 height l ° f 1 , Po P a }' au i but the “eau tem- 
perature ot this place is probablv only 17° or 18°. The roar 
over these mountains is much frequented ; we met couth, 
ualiy long files of mules and oxen; it is the great road lead 
mg from the capital to La Victoria, and the vafeys of lianut 
I his road is cut out of a talcose gneiss* in a state of demm 
position A clayey soil mixed Jth spangles of mica covert 
the S i? th ° f epth ,°f tbree . feet - Travellers suffer from 
e dust in winter, while m the rainy season the place is 
changed into a slough. On descending the table-land of 
Luenavista, about fifty toises to the south-east, an abundant 
,-nnmf'’d gUS -, ] i 1I1 f/-T n tlC £ n ? isa > forms several cascades sur- 
1 minded with thick vegetation. The patli leading to the 
spring is so steep that we could touch with our hands ti e 
tops of the arborescent ferns, the trunks of which reach a 
* file direction of the strata of aneiss varies, it ,-.i , 
dipping to the N.W. or hor. 8'2, dipping to the S.E. ‘ Cr 1OT ‘ 3 ' 4 ’ 
T luo red jasiuinc-tree, frangipanier of the Fipnnh t j 
Islands. The plumeria, so common in the gardens of the Tndil/'f' 3 
been very seldom found in a wild state. It is mixed l^lsi 
flageUare, the spadix of which sometimes reaches three feet lonsr * WnT 
the new kind of fie-tree fvvhiVh u-B i„,<.» „.,ii i Iect 10R S- with 
frequently attains the height of a hundred feet) w^/r^fT*’ tecaU£e ic 
J doubt really whether it i 1 « „ d m , tho same places; hut 
*hi,:h is 0f Li — 
in plants, I was’struck with thffi f CaraCaS ' 0,1 the air which circulates 
and leaves of the Clush ml a l>i>earaace presented by the petioles 
to the rays of the sun Each trldfea ° Pen UU<ler WatCr ’ and ex P osc<i 
by 0 08 than atmospheric ah T hn „■ ° U a ° mTe "f of h'as, purer 
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