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Title: Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857 Gibbon, Lardner United States. Navy Dept
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Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, public printer
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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lored streaks, principally white, like salt,over the metallic-looking rock, into the rivulet below. I presume theremust have been some volcano near here, and that this rock is lava,fur it had all the appearance of having once been liquid. The valley about two miles from Tachachaca is cut across by rockyhills. Here wo turned to the northward and eastward. The country atfirst oflered some pa-sturage, but became more barren as we advanced,only showing, now and then, some patches of barley. We travelled tillnoon on tlie left bank of the Yauli stream, when wo crossed it by anatural bridge, at a little village of a few huts, called Saco. At half-pm<t two, after a rido over a stony and dusty jdain, bordere<l on eachside by rocky mountains, we arrived at Uie bridge of Oroya. This is achain suspension bridge, of about fifty yards in length, and two and ahalf in breadth, flung over the river of Jauxa, which is a tributary ofthe Ucayali. The Yauli stream, into which emptied the stream from
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