“The country, in this neighbourhead, may be called an intermixture of Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego; here we have many plants of the two countries; the nature of the climate being intermediate: a few miles to the South the rounded Slate hills & forests of evergreen beeches commence. The country is however throughily uninteresting.”
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
February 1st 1834
Further reading: Porter, D. 1999. Charles Darwin’s Chilean plant collections. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 72: 181-200
