Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-02
IN THE DAYS NEWS
 PERIL

The Peruyians are celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of their In- dependence Day on July 2S and on be- half of the United States President Harding has sent an official delega- tfon to Lima to take part in the fes- tIvities. In connection with the cele- bration of the anniversary the National Geographic Society has issued from it's Washington. D. C. headquarters, the following bulletin on Peru:
 Most countries, unless they are con- tinental in extent" says the bulletin, must be content with a small range of climatic conditions but Peru occu- ping less than a tenth of South Am erica, has every climate under the heavens together with many of the pro- ducts that go with them. It has sand dunes of the Sahara; the fertile, sun bathed, irrigated valleys of California; the dry grazing lands of Australia; the productive mountain valleys and up- lands of Kashmir; the snowy peaks of Switzerland; and the tropical jun gles of Central Africa and Brazil.
 Much of Peru is occupied by the towering Andes, with few passes less 15,o60 feet high, and with numerous peaks exceeding 21,000 feet. These great ramparts are chiefly responsible for the diversity of Peru's climatic conditions. the Atlantic winds and so create the trop- ical jungles that stretch from their bases toward the interior of the con tinent; thrust slopes and plateaus up into the cool regions of the upper air and cut off the Pacific coast section from the moisture laden winds, mak- ing much of it a desert.
 Although the strip of Peru between the Pacific and the western foothills | of the Andes is devoid of rain and largely a desert, many streams from the mountains traverse this region and the relatively narrow valleys, ir- | rigated from their waters. constitute 1 the most fertile land of the country There grow cotton, sugar cane, corn vineyards and~olive trees, various fruits and practically all other products of
 the semi-tropical regions. From tho most remote part of Peru on the east i side of the Andes, come the products o1 the country with which Americans are
 perhaps most familiar; quinine, CO., caine, rubber and cocoa
 1 Isolated on the Pacific coast o | South America before the building ot 1 the Panama canal; and because of tht 1 World War, not yet receiving the ful
 benefit of that great vaterceurse, Pc. ru is not well known to the people o the United States. In many cases. m I doubt, it is looked upon as a smallei patch of territory. In reality it is unl, l a little less than a third the area O the United States exclusive Of flask.
 and is larger than the latter terri l tory. It has a sea coast of approx
 imately 1900 miles, practically eaua
 to the Pacific coast line of the Unite. ' States south of Canada.
 If Peru were laid down on the sur
 face of the United States so that it
 southernmost point coincided with tn
 seuthernmost projection of Texas it
 northernmost corner would lie nea
 Peoria, H., and it's northwestern ex tFeTnity near Cheyenne, Wyo. Tn rough triangle would cover praeticall all of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas souri. Colorado, Iowa and South Dako half of Nebraska, parts Of Illinois, Mis- ta, and fragments of New Mexico an
 Wyoming.
 Peru, no less than the United Sta. e
 contains a mixture of races. The to
 tai population is not accurately know