The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05

would see the black hole pierced by the track. Above us through the narrow slit of the rocks was the blue sky of heaven. and below was the gorge which these people call the little hell. The bridge there spans a chasm which is ayae feet deep. and We trembled at tie, thought that there might be train Tn the tunnel beyond.
 The whole Of this wonderful road seems blasted out of the sides of the mountains. Here Is hangs to the cliffs. there is bores through the rocks and again it zigzags in great V's as 1t climbs. Some of the tunnels are so close together that they made me think of the road between Monte Carlo and Nice, which has been described as rid ing through flute and looking out of the holes. The only difference be- tween that and this road up the An des is that each of these holes gives you moving picture show of magnificent grandeur
 l wish l could show you some of the formations of the Andes. They surpass in their wonders the Alps and the Rock ies, and l have seen nothing like them in the Himalayas. We have a little patch of 400 acres in Colorado at the foothills or the Rockies which we call the Garden of the Gods Not far from Cerro de Pasco In the heart of the Andes looked down upon the mountain peaks from 17OO0 to 2O,00O feet high, is similar garden, which covers tens of thousands of acres, and with an hundred formations where the Colorado garden has one. In the Andes there Is one rock called the King, d. gigantic, figure as big as a house. with a crown on it's top poised upon a neck not more than three feet in diameter, and so long that it carries the great head high above all it's surroundings There is another rock known as the Tur- tie, gigantic block the shape of a tor toise that is believed to uphold the world A third looks like great steamboar perched on a pedestal, and a fourth is a mighty tower chiseled out by the gods In this same region Is the Rock Forest consisting of hundreds of acres of columns which stand individually out on the plain and which in the distance look like a great woods.
 And then there are castles, palaces and grand Qualifications. With a little im- agination you can find almost any kind Of architecture or the model of any great structure. I have seen table rock which hangs over the harbor at Cape Town in South Africa. There are table rocks of marble here in the Andes which look as though they had been cut by sculptor
 Going to Cerro de Pasco I saw rocks like those of the Giants Causeway al- though they were not of hexagonal shape and in riding through the mountains
 
 marble which in their grandeur excel those mighty ruins the work of man. on the Rhine. These mountains have all the colors of the Colorado canyon. Now the rock blazing white above and a marble palace seems to have risen out of the golden rocks below which in turn remind one of the rusted marbles of the Parthenon at Athens Here the rocks are brown, further on they are blue red or gray The gray is the most prominent color close to the sea. Much of the form ation IS limestone. Here the mountains are ragged and rough. Further on they rise into ruined cities. I saw some the color of old red sandstone They made me think of the grand Qualifications of Delhi in India I saw others which had spires like the cathedrals of Cologne and Milan These spires were as white as oarrara marble. and they glistened like snow under the sun. Other rocks were dome-shaped, and others extend in great waves showing the folds in the earth, forming curving walls of wonderful beauty.
 me vegetation of the Andes is won- def1ul have already written of the Rimac valley, which broadens out into an Irrigated plain al the sea and climbs US Winding way through narrow gor- ses, with patches of soil here and there 10 the top of the coastal range to a height or almost three miles. This has | oase. Higher up are alfalfa and grass. and higher still are small grains of various kinds. Fruits can be grown all the way to the top. For the first two miles of altitude the mountains about are almost altogether desert. Then comes sprinkling of green. with many Wild flowers. Higher still the green deepens and, after going over the pass and reaching the high plateau which is upheld by the two mighty ranges of the Rhues nearest the coast. you come into land which seems to be a bed of green moss With tufts of grass here and there. This is the vegetation of the high plateaus, which covers millions of acres and supports vast herds of llamas and sheep.
 rode for about loo miles over those plains, passing flock after flock of fat sheep, with tails big around as my arm. To my eyes they seemed to have holhihg to eat but they live on the moss and -the thin, fuzzy grass and grow rat Some of the sheep are owned py rich capitalists. There is one firm Whlch has 36,000. and another near oefro de Pasco which owns 60,00O and more. There are also hundreds of squatters, Indians or cholos, who have small focks. They live in little houses about 1b feet square, away. out on the plains Their houses are of mud or sod with matched roofs held down by rocks. Near them are corrals for the stock, They are fenced with stone, ana each pen contains an acre or so some of these squatters have great hocks of llamas, and others of donkeys Now and then you see double corral With donkeys in one pen and llamas in the other. All of the stock is herded Every flock has it's man or woman. who stands and knits or spins as she watches little boys and girls of 10 or l2 years of age. who knit or spin e they care for the sheep
 The great haciendas of the high Andes yieiu considerable money. There is one near La Foundation, which produces tens Of thousands of pounds of wool every year. It belongs to Duncan, Fox & Co, of Lima, and is managed by Scotch man, whose name is Mckenzie. The farm has 3e,000 sheep, which are keue In fenced fields and handled by aheu. herds from Scotland. The manager h making many experiments in introduce ing new blood into the flocks; and he mas Scotch collie dogs. which he has in- ported and hs crossing with the native dcgs of Peru to produce a breed espe- cially fitted for sheep raising on the high Andes
 l see many cattle feeding on the plateau. They are comparatively small and not very fat. There is an Italian ramed Fernandini, whe Is experimentins in bringing in fancy stock He has . number of large haciendas and expects tn supply the meat market of the coa st This same man is said to ou-,, +bov~o.S.