KOZAKIO. 
CHAPTER VII 
Excursion to St. Fe—Thistle Beds—Habits of the Bizcacha—Little Owl—Saline 
Streams—Level Plains—Mastodon—St. Fe—Change in Landscape—Geology 
—Tooth of extinct Horse—Relation of the Fossil and recent Quadrupeds of 
North and South America—Effects of a great Drought—Parana—Habits of the 
Jaguar—Scissor-beak—Kingfisher,- Parrot, and Scissor-tail—Revolution—Buenos 
Ayres—State of Government. 
BUENOS AYRES TO ST. f£ 
September 2 7th .—In the evening I set out on an excursion to 
St. Fe, which is situated nearly three hundred English miles 
from Buenos Ayres, on the banks of the Parana. The roads 
in the neighbourhood of the city, after the rainy weather, were 
extraordinarily bad. I should never have thought it possible 
for a bullock-waggon to have crawled along : as it was, they 
scarcely went at the rate of a mile an hour, and a man was 
kept ahead, to survey the best line for making the attempt. 
The bullocks were terribly jaded : it is a great mistake to 
suppose that with improved roads, and an accelerated rate of 
travelling, the sufferings of the animals increase in the same 
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