History & The Arts
Darwin explores the Sierra de la Ventana
...think Nature ever made a more solitary, desolate pile of rock;—it well deserves its name ofHurtado, or separated. The mountain is steep, extremely rugged, and broken, and so entirely destitute of trees, and even bushes, that we actually could not make a skewer to stretch out our meat over the fire of thistle-stalks. The strange aspect of this mountain is contrasted by...