Charles Darwin on the undulating Pampas

“The view from the post of Cufre, in Banda Oriental, was pleasing: an undulating green surface, with distant glimpses of the Plata… after galloping over the Pampas, my only surprise is, what could have induced me ever to have called it level. The country is a series of undulations . . . From these unevennesses there is an abundance of small rivulets, and the turf is green and luxuriant. The number of the animals remains imbedded in the grand estuary deposit which forms the Pampas, and covers the granitic rocks of Banda Oriental, must be extraordinarily great. I believe a straight line drawn in any direction through the Pampas would cut through some skeleton or bones.”

- Charles Darwin, British naturalist and evolutionary theorist