The whole apparatus looked like some implement of war.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1833.
We passed the small town of Luxan, where there is a wooden bridge over the river--a most unusual convenience in this country.

We passed also Areco.

The plains appeared level, but were not so in fact; for in various places the horizon was distant.

The estancias are here wide apart; for there is little good pasture, owing to the land being covered by beds either of an acrid clover, or of the great thistle.

The latter, well known from the animated description given by Sir F.Head, were at this time of the year two-thirds grown; in some parts they were as high as the horse's back, but in others they had not yet sprung up, and the ground was bare and dusty as on a turnpike-road.