The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-11-29

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EXTRACTS

EXTRACTS
Ers1 sss 4" 7rau<zi Of HuxnoLDr and BoxrLANp, in
SssiA If~oi,a, from 1899 10 1904"
Frem Loxa, they entered Peru by Ayavaca and
Gopneabamba, trayerfing the high fumnit of the
Andes, proceed the river Amazon. They had to
pats thrty6ve tn,ea in the eosrfs Of two days. the
river ChamayS, fotnetmes a raft, and fometirnes
by fording They faw the fuperb remains of the
eaulewsy of YngA, which may be compared to the
nioR beautiful cauleways in France and Spain, and
which proceeds the porphyritie ridge Of the Andes
from Cufeo to Ahonay, and is frrnihcd with Casxbs
tinns) and public fountain. M
They examined the mines Of Huaguayoo, where
native hlver 10 found in large males, at the height
Of 1000 totes above the level Of the fea, in mines
tome metallherous veins Of which contain petrifed
hells, and which, with thoie of Huontajayo are at
preient the richeh Of Peru. From Caxamarca, ce-
LIBERATED by its thermal waters, and by the ruins of
the palace of Atahualra they defended rruxillo
al the neighbourhoo1 Of which are found vehiges
OF the innmenie Peruvian city of Man6iehe, orra-
n,ented with pyrimids, in of which dfcover-
ed m The eighteenth century, hammered gold to the
value of more than O,ooOl fterling.
On the weitern deelivity of the Andes our ira
vellers enjoyed, for the 6rn time the ftrking view
OF the Pacific Ocean; and from that long and mar
row valley, the inhabitants of which unac9uant-
ed with rain or thunder, and where, under happy
climate, the mott abiou,e power, and that mott dam
gerogs to man. Theocroey itlf, rems initiate the
bepCGcsnce Of nature.
They were aitonifhed to find in Peru, at 70 i'm
menfe diianee from Europs, the newell literary
productions in cheniitry, mathematics, and ptvlioo-
gy, and they admired the great intellectual ACTIVITY OF
rs-,ple, whom the Europeans aeeule of indolsnce
and lux,ir-.
They had favourable navigation of so days,
on the Pacific Ocean, to Acapulco, the weern port
OF the kingdom Of New Spain, celebrated by the beau
~ nj ha(p yvhtr h,y.
in the granite rocks by the violence of earthquakes
celebrated afo by the wretchednefs of its
who fee their millions of piaffres, embarked for the
Philippines and China and unfortunately celebrated
by climate, as feorehng as mortal.
After having occupied their attention with plants,
the Rate OF the the hourly variations of the baro-
meter, the phenomena Of the magnet, and, i'll parti-
euar, the longitude of Acapulco port in which
two able Astronomers, Melrs Efpiruia and Galeano
had before made obiervations our travellers fe our
for Mexico They attended gradually from the
feorchng valleys of Meleala and Papagavo, where
the THERMOMETER in the ihade Rood 50 deg. of Re-
aan,ur, aud where they paed the river OH the fruit
of the erentia fisnay0 bound together by ropes of
agave, to the high table lands of Chlpsntzngo Te-
huilotepec and Taico.
Having fpent fome time in the mine of Talco. the
oldef, and formerly the richeit in the kingdom and
having ifudied the nature of thoie very VEINS which
pals from the hard cacarous rock to ncaceous fcht
erparaca and the cold regions Of Guchilaqua to the
capital of Mexico. This city which has $4,000
inhabitants, and ltands the fcte of the old Tenoch
titan between the lakes of the Tezcueo and Xocri-
MILO which have deereafed in fize iince the Spani.
ards, to e1en the danger Of inundatiuns have OPEN
ed the mountains of sineoe, is interfeted by broad
fraight freets. IL haDds in fight oftwo fnowy noun
tains, one of which is named Poposapec and Of
volcano It'll burning; and at the height of 100
toiies, enjoys temperate and, agreeable climate i,
is furrounded by canals, walks borcered with trees
multitude OF Indian hamlets, and wthou, doubt
may be compared TO the 6neit cities of Europe.
After a ifay of iome months in that capital, our
travellers vi6ted the celebrated mine. of Moran
and Reatdel Monte, where the vein of La Bifcavra
has given millions of piafres the Counr De ReqIa
they examined the obGdan fones of Oynmel, which
form ftrata in the Pcarl-fone and porpfyry, and
ferved as knives to the ancient Mexicans
On their return from their excurion to Moran
in July, 1908, they undertook another To the nor
thern part of the kingdom AT firft they directed
their refearches TO Huehuetooa, where at the eypene
OF Xix millions of piattres, aperture has been |
formed in the mountain Of Sincoe to drain off the
waters from the valley of Mexico to the river Mon
ttzuma They then pafed Queretaro, by Salamanca |
thr fertile PLAINS OF YraPuato TO Guanaxuato, town
which contains $4,000 inhabitants: it is fituated in
narrow defle, and celebrated by its mines, which
are OF far greater coniequence than thole of Poto
&" The mine OF count de Valenciana, which has |
given birth to a comfortable town en- kill. which
thirty years ago fearcely afforded paRure to goats is
already 40 feet in perpendicular Depth il is the
deepeh and richef in the world the annual profit of
the proprie,ors having never been leE than three
millions of vres, and it fometime, amounts TO FIVE |
fix.
After two months employed in meafuremen,s |
and geological refesrches, and AFTER having e.amin-
ell the thermal waters of Comagias, the temper,. |
ture of which is ii deg. of Reaumuf higher than |
thofe Of the Philippine Hands, which Sonnerat CON-
hders as the hottea in the world, our travellers pro-
eeeded through the valley of ST. Jago, where tbev
thought they faw in fevera lake, at the fumm;t Of
the bafaitc mountains, 70 many orators of burn,.out
volcanoes to Valiadold, the capital of the ancien,
Kingdom OF Michoacan. They thence defended
notwithstanding the continual autunnal rains, by patz
guaro, tua,ed on the margin of very exten!ye lake
towards the coat Of the Pacific Ocean, to the plains
OF oruilo, where, in the courfe of one night in 1850
during one Of the greate eonvulGons which the globe
ever experienced there ilTued from the earth VOL
eano, AGO feet in height, furrounded by more than
1000 mouths, Till emitting fInoke. They defended |
into the burning crater of the great volcano TO m.
Perpendicular depth Of 25s feet, jumping over 6C.
fures, which erhsled flaming fuphurated by HYDRO
gen gas After great danger, arifng from the brit.
tieneis of the bafatc and fcienc lava they reached
nearly the bottom Of the crater and analyed the air