File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14578766967).jpg

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Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
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ggs, the GaleraTunnel, it is called, the middle point is the high-est on the road, fifteen thousand six hundred andsixty-five feet, the waters from its eastern en-trance flowing toward the Atlantic, from itswestern toward the Pacific Ocean. All about aregreat glaciers and mountains of snow. Thesemountains are rich in minerals and where ex-posed are beautifully tinted in many colors. Youknow the meaning of the Indian word Andes ismountains of copper. The Rimac River, whichempties into the ocean at Callao, is not a largestream; a part of the year it becomes quite dry,but at others it is a mad, foaming torrent, whichhas cut a deep pathway in the rocks on its longdescent from the summit of the Andes. The fol-lowing of this river offered the only route for therailroad. It leaves it of necessity only when itsdescent is too abrupt. The railway winds andtwists, loops over itself, skirts breath-takingprecipices, tunnels no end of times, passes overseveral hanging bridges with the rapid changes
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THE CITY OF PIZARRO 133 of a cinematograph, and see-saws back and forthup the mountain steeps in what is called the Vsystem. Mr. Meiggs in his lifetime carried the road onlyas far as Chicala, I believe, but it now goes downthe east slope as far as Oroya. Oroya is no placein particular, just a mining settlement as yet, andthe road must be built still farther before throughtraffic of any sort is opened up and made profita-ble. When the road is extended into the coffee-growing regions and from there to the water-ways of the Amazon, the Atlantic will be con-nected with the Pacific in this part of SouthAmerica. Now you can only finish the gap onmule-back by narrow, dangerous and precipitoustrails, then through the jungle to the navigabletributaries of the Amazon. A gentleman livingin Peru told me he had a son over in the Amazondistrict, beyond the Andes. Their letters are ex-changed back and forth by way of New York,though they are really only a few hundred milesapart. From this side they

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