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A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER VI
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We slept at one of the great estancias of General Rosas.

It was fortified, and of such an extent, that arriving in the dark I thought it was a town and fortress.

In the morning we saw immense herds of cattle, the general here having seventy-four square leagues of land.
Formerly nearly three hundred men were employed about this estate, and they defied all the attacks of the Indians.
SEPTEMBER 19, 1833.
Passed the Guardia del Monte.

This is a nice scattered little town, with many gardens, full of peach and quince trees.

The plain here looked like that around Buenos Ayres; the turf being short and bright green, with beds of clover and thistles, and with bizcacha holes.


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