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whatever quantity of ground their wants might require. "

 At particular season of the year, when the clover withers, enormous thistles, ten or twelve feet in height suddenly shoot up, hem up the roads and paths, and form q dense and impenetrable barrier. "The sudden growth of these plants," says Mir Head, "is quite astonishing, and, though it would be an unu- sual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that an invading army, unac- quanted with this country, might be impris- oned by these thistles, before they had time to escape from them"

 Upon this vast level are found innumera- ble herds of horned cattle, horses, mules, and sheep; also deer, ostrtches, lions. tigers, and wild dogs. Thousands of these animals may be seen together; they are its principal sources f wealth and commerce. They have been estimated at between two and three millions of cattle, and three or four millions of horscsi which range unbridled over the intermnablc sayannahs of the Pampas