The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-06

came to the highest pass on the railroad This pass crosses the coast range at about half a mile below the highest altitude of the road from Lima to Cerro de Pasco, and 1900 feet less in height than that of the Peruvian Southern on its way to Lake Titicaca. Nevertheless, the height is 13,e0O feet above the sea, and we found 1t bitterly cold at the crossing The mountains on each side were dusted with snow. and beyond them were several great peaks covered with glaciers. On the way we passed the two mighty vol canoes of San Pedro and San Paulo or, as we should call them in English, St. Peter and St. Paul. St. Peter is now active, and from it goes up a constant column of smoke, while along its sides runs a great bed of lava that looks as though it had not long since come from the crater. This lava is broken into millions of fragments. It extends for several miles along the slope of the mountains in plain view of the railroad
 St. Peter is one of the most symmetri- cal of the worlds great mountains It Is as beautifully shaped as Fujiyama in Japan, Mount Cook in New Zealand or Mount Moyon in Luzon. The mountain rises directly up from the plain. The plain is level, with only here and there few pebbles or powders in sight It is perfectly smooth except for these
 
 hundreds upon hundreds of millions of tons. The rock looks as though it had been broken into pieces by the hammers of giants and piled up by some intelli- gent force. It Is wonderful sight
 have seen all of the great mountain ranges that wall the western side of this continent. The Andes are said to be the last of the great mountain masses showed up out of the sea; and of all the high lands they are in many respects the most wonderful. From Panama to Pat agonia they form a mighty geological garden such as can be seen in no other part of the world. The combinations of desert and rocks and sky give scenic effects beyond description. Parts of the Andes are more desert like than the wilds of Arabia or the Sahara They show you how the earth was made, and the terrible throes involved in its making At times you seem to be travelling upon the very bedrock of . the world and again as though old mother earth, in her original nakedness of bare rock, were laid out before you upon the dissecting table. The walls of broken lava of which l have been writing are perhaps 300 feet high The stones are dark red and they are piled up in regular masses, forming altogether a whole 100 times the volume of our excavations at Panama. Tn other places the volcanoes have yomited sand. Again they have thrown out deposits of rock the size of walnut and still again mighty powders of semi-metallic na- ture.
 All about these volcanoes of St. Peter and St. Paul the scenery is magnificent. and right between them is low crater as symmetrically shaped as though cut out by a sculptor. This is of dark red color.
 Close to the volcanoes are the reser- voirs that give Antofagasta it's water supply. The water comes frcn the roof of the continent, and the pipes. carry ing it down are 193 miles long. The res ervoirs are at an altitude higher than the top of Pikes peak. The place is known as the Sloli spring. It has flow of about 5000 tons of water per day, the most of which gocs to the towns on the ocean in pipes that are Ii inches in diameter.
 After leaving Bolivia, the whole way down the seacoast is through the des- ert. The only green spots are the rail way stations watered by the pipe line