At Limache the valley looked very fertile. Many fields of alfalfa, potatoes, corn, maize, orchards of peaches, apricots, plums, apples, melons etc were seen. Several very extensive vineyards were also passed. In some valleys the floor was used as a pasture for cattle there where there were meadows & moist conditions. Approaching Santiago the valley widened out to + became very level. The hills on either side ever at greater distance but never small & stony. Further away to the east could be seen none of the snow capped Andes, but the fields grown with few small masses or only streaks in canyons. I spent the morning on the Cerro Santa Lucia which is a high rocky hill in the center of the city. This artistically planted.