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60 der the ground, after having but jut appeared above its urface.

Apple-trees loaded with fruit adorned the garden of thee peaceable cottagers. This fruit tated o delicious to the ervant who accompanied us, that he took it into his head, whilt we were employed in viewing the premies, to make an exchange that gave us a very poor idea of his foreight. He had given away our whole tore of fleh-meat for ome of thee apples, without taking a moment's conideration whether or not they would be an equally good proviion for us in travelling the mountains. We wore to ourelves that we would never on a future expedition leave our tores in the charge of uch an œconomit. In general it may be remarked, that the ervants employed at ea are almot wholly unfit for ervice on hore.

At the cloe of the evening we were far from any habitation of men. About nine o'clock we reached a village, the inhabitants of which can certainly not be accued of carrying the virtue of hopitality to a blameable exces. It was not without the greatet difficulty that we were able to procure helter among them. As we did not undertand the Spanih language, we were obliged to make ue of igns to expres our meaning, a language