Date: 1878
Our afternoon, spent amid smoke, and heat, and dirt, and half-naked work men, manipulating with dexterous skill the glowing streams of molten ore, was a great contrast to our morning ramble.  Having seen the works, and received a curious and in teresting collection of copper ore, as a remembrance of our visit, we started in a little car, lined with crimson cloth, and drawn by a locomotive , to visit the various coal mines.  First we went through the park, and then along a valley near the sea, full of wild flowers and ferns, and trees festooned with 'copigue,' the Chilian name for a creeper which is a speciality of this country, and which imparts a character of its own to the landscape during the month of