. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of 'Beagle,' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy. this estate, and they defied all the attacksof the Indians. September igth.—Passed the Guardia del Monte. This is anice scattered little town, with many gardens, full of peach andquince trees. The plain here looked like that around BuenosAyres ; the turf being short and bright green, with beds ofclover and thistles, and with bizcacha holes. I was very muchstruck with the marked change in the aspect of the country afte
. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of 'Beagle,' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy. this estate, and they defied all the attacksof the Indians. September igth.—Passed the Guardia del Monte. This is anice scattered little town, with many gardens, full of peach andquince trees. The plain here looked like that around BuenosAyres ; the turf being short and bright green, with beds ofclover and thistles, and with bizcacha holes. I was very muchstruck with the marked change in the aspect of the country afterhaving crossed the Salado. From a coarse herbage we passedon to a carpet of fine green verdure. I at first attributed thisto some change in the nature of the soil, but the inhabitantsassured me that here, as well as in Banda Oriental, where thereis as great a difference between the country around Monte Videoand the thinly-inhabited savannahs of Colonia, the whole was tobe attributed to the manuring and grazing of the the same fact has been observed in the prairies1 of 1 See Mr. Atwaters Account of the Prairies, in Sillimarts N. A. Journal, vol.
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