With unwearied industry
they continued to penetrate the country for four days; but at the end of
that time, finding the base of the mountain to be yet at the distance
of more than twenty miles, and provisions growing scarce, it was judged
prudent to return, without having accomplished the end for which the
expedition had been undertaken. To reward their toils, our adventurers
had, however, the pleasure of discovering and traversing an extensive
tract of ground, which they had reason to believe, from the observations
they were enabled to make, capable of producing every thing, which
a happy soil and genial climate can bring forth. In addition to this
flattering appearance, the face of the country is such, as to
promise success whenever it shall be cultivated, the trees being at
a considerable distance from each other, and the intermediate space
filled, not with underwood, but a thick rich grass, growing in the
utmost luxuriancy. I must not, however, conceal, that in this long
march, our gentlemen found not a single rivulet, but were under a
necessity of supplying themselves with water from standing pools, which
they met with in the vallies, supposed to be formed by the rains that
fall at particular seasons of the year.
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