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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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75° West or ureenwich 74°58- UMile. the Mesa terrace, will be constructed on the ratchet-wheel principle, like that ofthe Righi. Tocaima, a station on the same railway below Jnntas, was till recently muchfrequented, thanks to its hot sulphur springs ; but visitors have greatly fallen offsince the appearance of yellow fever in the district. Agua de Dios, the mostnoted spring in the neighbourhood of Tocaima, is reserved for the leprous, forwhom the State of Cundinaraarca has founded an agricultural settlement and alazaret supported b\ a special tax on legacies. In 1890 the village of Agua deDios was inhabited by 520 patients, each owning a plot 2^ acres in extent, whichhe either cultivated himself or rented to tenants. The development of the disease,which is not contagious in the Tocaima climate, is said to be nearly alwaysarrested in this district. The high rate of mortality amongst those interned inAgua de Dios is due, not to the leprosy itself, but to their generally feeble con-
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TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 187 stitution. The Tocaima vines yield a grape of exquisite flavour, but useless formaking wine, owing to the high temperature of these bottom-lands, which standat an elevation of little over 1,650 feet. Girardot, terminal station of the railway on the Magdalena, lies immediatelybelow the two confluences of the Fusagasuga and Bogota. It is a modern place,which has suddenly acquired some importance, thanks to the railway and to an ironbridge, 430 feet long, which spans the mainstream at the Flandes gorge, andwhich is utilised for most of the traffic between the capital and the province ofTolima. Ibagiie, second city in the province, stands at an altitude of 4,270 feet, on afertik plain encircled by the spurs of the Tolima volcano and traversed by theRio Combeima, which joins the Magdalena at Coello. Eastwards stretch the aridlava-fields, which are separated from the mainstream by the rocky rampart of thevolcanic crests of Gualanday. Although Ibague neglects its

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