Excerpt from Travels Through the Interior Provinces of Columbia, Vol. 2 of 2La Plata were very snug, and we were quite charmed with the beauty and variety of the ¿owers which were cultivated in the gardens orange-trees were in great abundance, some in ¿ower and others bearing fruit, the former extremely fragrant.We rose early on Saturday morning, the 3rd of October, and bathed in the river of La Plata, which we found almost too cold, but exceedingly refreshing. This was a change, after having been baked for near ly a month in the plains and villages on the banks of the river Magdalena. At La Plata they cultivate rice, maize, cocoa not of the best description, plan tain, &c., and in the adjacent mountains, wheat, barley, potatoes, greens, and other European vegeta bles. The Indians are very numerous in this range of Cordilleras. The Doctor sent them to fish, in the night, for the pisco negro, a black fish, which is considered here like our trout in Europe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.