Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — volume 1
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — volume 1
Humboldt, Alexander Von, 1769-1859
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These differences are great; and if, instead of meteorological instruments, we consulted only our ownfeelings, we should suppose they were still more considerable. The vegetation of the plain which surrounds the town is monotonous, but, owing to the extreme humidity of the air, remarkable for itsfreshness. It is chiefly characterized by an arborescent solanum, forty feet in height, the Urtica baccifera, and a new species ofthe genus Guettarda. * (* These trees are surrounded by Galegapilosa, St...ellaria rotundifolia, Aegiphila elata of Swartz, Sauvagesia erecta, Martinia perennis, and a great number ofRivinas. We find among the gramineous plants, in the savannah ofCumanacoa, the Paspalus lenticularis, Panicum ascendens, Pennisetumuniflorum, Gynerium saccharoides, Eleusine indica, etc. ) The groundis very fertile, and might be easily watered if trenches were cutfrom a great number of rivulets, the springs of which never dry upduring the whole year. The most valuable production of the districtis tobacco.
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