On this virgin soil, where the heat and the moisture agreed to produce vegetation, it might well be thought that the reign of growth appeared in all its power.

The parallel of this vast plateau was almost confounded with tropical latitudes, and, during certain months in summer, the sun, in passing to the zenith, darted its perpendicular rays there.

There was, therefore, an enormous quantity of imprisoned heat in this earth, of which the subsoil preserved the damp.

Also, nothing could be more magnificent than this succession of forests, or rather this interminable forest.
Meanwhile, Dick Sand had not failed to observe this--that, according to Harris, they were in the region of the pampas.

Now, pampas is a word from the "quichna" language, which signifies a plain.