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A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER XII
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The scenery certainly is most striking, and, as I have said, very peculiar.

I am informed that this same character is common to the cities on the great Mexican platform.

Of the town I have nothing to say in detail: it is not so fine or so large as Buenos Ayres, but is built after the same model.

I arrived here by a circuit to the north; so I resolved to return to Valparaiso by a rather longer excursion to the south of the direct road.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1834.
By the middle of the day we arrived at one of the suspension bridges made of hide, which cross the Maypu, a large turbulent river a few leagues southward of Santiago.

These bridges are very poor affairs.


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