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Show AN OTATIONS AND ADDITIO '8. 141 wild guanaco, from the Peruvian Cordilleras to Tierra del Fuego, sometime in herd of 500, has been favored by the circumstance that these animals can swim with great ease from island to island, so that the Patagonian fiords offer no obstacle to their wanderings. ( ee the pleasing descriptions by Darwin, in his Journal, 1845, p. 66.) South of the Gila River, which, together with the Rio Colorado, enters the Californian Gulf or Mar de Cortes, stand, in the solitude of the Steppe, the enigmatical ruins of the Aztec Palace, called by the Spaniards las Casas grandes. When the Aztecs, about the year 1160, came from the unknown land of Aztlan to Anahuac, they settled themselves for a time on the banks of the Gib. The Franciscan monks, Garces and Font, are the latest travellers who have visited the Casas grandes, and they did so in 1773. They stated the ruins to extend over above a square German mile (16 EngHsh square miles). The whole plain is strewed with fragments of painted pottery. The principal palace (if a house built of unburnt clay can be so designated) is 447 English feet long and 277 English feet broad. (See a rare work printed in Mexico, and entitled Cronica sen1fica y apost6lica del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de Queretaro por Fr. Juan Domingo Arricivita.) The Taye of California, as drawn by Father_ Venegas, appears to differ little from the Ovis musimon of the Old Continent. The same animal is also seen on the "Stony Mountains," near the sources of the Peace River. Very different from it, on the other hand, is the small white and black spotted goat-like creature which feeds near the Missouri and Arkansas rivers. The synonymy of Antilope furcifer, A. tememazama of Smith, and Ovis montana, is still very undetermined. (27) p. 34.-" The. cultivation of farinaceous grasses." The original habitat of the farinaceous grasses is wrapped in the same obscurity as that of the domestic animals which have accompanied man since his earliest migrations. The German word for corn, "Getraide," has been ingeniously derived by Jacob Grimm from the old German gitragidi, getregcde. "lt is as it were the |