. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. are laid up about half the time,get up steam by means of llama dung, and can not come * Pentlands estimates of lUimani, Sorata, and other Bolivian peaks, madefrom the Titicaca basin as a base, must therefore come down 300 feet. t The following which I obtained seemed to be most numerous: Paludes-trina culminea. Orb.; P. andicola, Orh.; Ancylus Say anus. Orb.; Planor-bis andicolus. Orb. ; and a Sphosrium, probably new. It is a singular factthat one of the fishes {Trichomycterus dispar, Isch.) is found also in the Ri-mac and
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. are laid up about half the time,get up steam by means of llama dung, and can not come * Pentlands estimates of lUimani, Sorata, and other Bolivian peaks, madefrom the Titicaca basin as a base, must therefore come down 300 feet. t The following which I obtained seemed to be most numerous: Paludes-trina culminea. Orb.; P. andicola, Orh.; Ancylus Say anus. Orb.; Planor-bis andicolus. Orb. ; and a Sphosrium, probably new. It is a singular factthat one of the fishes {Trichomycterus dispar, Isch.) is found also in the Ri-mac and Guayaquil rivers. An Obstacle Removed. 429 within five miles of Puno on account of the are also two or three trading schooners; but thehalsa is the characteristic craft This is simply a bundleof twisted rush, with a mat for a sail; the only woodabout it is in the rudder and mast.* But steam willwork a complete revolution in this cradle of the has already become an important place by beingmade the terminus of the railwav; and when Balsa Navigiition on Lake Tilicaca. as proposed, with Cuzco and La Paz, it will be a commer-cial centre such as the old Incas never dreamed of. Sonow it is a fixed fact that the Andes, the most abrupt andlofty range of mountains on the globe, can be crossed in aday. A belt of iron has made a smooth pathway over thiswall of granite, so long an insuperable obstacle to the prog-ress of Peru, and on it the commerce of the Pacific andthe Amazons will join hands. * The rushes, or totora, so abundant in the shallow parts of the lake, areeight or ten feet long. The cattle wade in to feed upon them ; and the peo-ple eat the lower part as salad, and make balsas, mats, and roofs of the rest. 430 The Andes and the Amazons. CHAPTEE XXXII. The Commerce of Peru.—Her vast Possibilities.—The present Source ofher Wealth. It would be quite as easy to ascertain the revenue ofAtahuallpa as to find out the present exports and impor
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