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Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
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
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Depths 0 to5Fathoms. h to 10Idthoms. 10 to 2ÏFathoms. 2.» Fathomsand upwards. placed, and is now indicated only by the remains of Ciiidad Vicja (Old Town),on the slopes of the northern hills. The Spanish settlement, founded bj^ Belal-cazar in 1Ô35, stood farther south, and was connected with the native town by acauseway 2,300 feet long, carried over the intervening channels and morasses.The harbour, which chiefly exports cacao, the staple product of tropical Ecuador,
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TOPOGEAPHY OF ECUADOR. 255 is accessible at low water only to craft of moderate draught ; larger vessels, draw-ing up to 21 feet, ride at anchor in the estuary lower down. The navigablechannel passes south of the islet of Santa Maria (Amortajada), and then sweepsround to the east of the large island of Puna through the Jambeli passage, whichleads north to the Rio Guayas. Here the Estero Saludo ( Saline Estuary j,which winds to the west of the city, is available only for boats and barges. Being thus encompassed by brackish creeks, Guayaquil was till recentlydestitute of fresh water, which had to be sent down from the upper reaches onrafts laden with pitchers. Now, however, potable water is brought from a valleyof the Andes by a canal running parallel with the railway. River steamersconvey goods for the interior either to the bodegas of Babahoyo, or to thesuburb of Duran, facing the city on the left bank of the estuary. Here is theseaward terminus of the Ecuador railway, whose first sta

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