The revolution having broken out prevented its being applied to any purpose, and now it remains a monument of the fallen greatness of Spain.
I wanted to go to a house about a mile and a half distant, but my guide said it was quite impossible to penetrate the wood in a straight line.

He offered, however, to lead me, by following obscure cattle-tracks, the shortest way: the walk, nevertheless, took no less than three hours! This man is employed in hunting strayed cattle; yet, well as he must know the woods, he was not long since lost for two whole days, and had nothing to eat.

These facts convey a good idea of the impracticability of the forests of these countries.

A question often occurred to me--how long does any vestige of a fallen tree remain?
This man showed me one which a party of fugitive royalists had cut down fourteen years ago; and taking this as a criterion, I should think a bole a foot and a half in diameter would in thirty years be changed into a heap of mould.
FEBRUARY 20,, 1835.
This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia, for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldest inhabitant.

I happened to be on shore, and was lying down in the wood to rest myself.