Accordingly, when Renous returned, he was arrested.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1834.
We left Yaquil, and followed the flat valley, formed like that of Quillota, in which the Rio Tinderidica flows.

Even at these few miles south of Santiago the climate is much damper; in consequence there were fine tracts of pasturage which were not irrigated.
(20th.) We followed this valley till it expanded into a great plain, which reaches from the sea to the mountains west of Rancagua.

We shortly lost all trees and even bushes; so that the inhabitants are nearly as badly off for firewood as those in the Pampas.

Never having heard of these plains, I was much surprised at meeting with such scenery in Chile.

The plains belong to more than one series of different elevations, and they are traversed by broad flat-bottomed valleys; both of which circumstances, as in Patagonia, bespeak the action of the sea on gently rising land.