Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . s re-served for intending guests of the Gran Hotel Ma-rone. After some delay incident to transferring atrain-load of passengers and their hand luggage tothis caravan of tram-cars, we started off and jingledour way through poorly-lit streets of one-story houseswhere attractively carv^ed stone doorways, dimly vis-ible in the semi-darkness, told of w^ell-built mansionsof former Spanish grandees, whose walls had with-stood Arequipas earthquakes. To a
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . s re-served for intending guests of the Gran Hotel Ma-rone. After some delay incident to transferring atrain-load of passengers and their hand luggage tothis caravan of tram-cars, we started off and jingledour way through poorly-lit streets of one-story houseswhere attractively carv^ed stone doorways, dimly vis-ible in the semi-darkness, told of w^ell-built mansionsof former Spanish grandees, whose walls had with-stood Arequipas earthquakes. To a person who has experienced a great earth-quake, the mere mention of the word is terrifying,and yet we were told by one of the astronomers atthe local Harvard Obser\^atory that their seismo-graph recorded three earthquakes during the fourdays of our stay here. In fact, scarcely a week goesby without one or more disturbances. Fortunatelyfor us, and for Arequipa, these daily earthquakesthat are ^o faithfully recorded by the delicate instru-ments of the observatory are not usually perceptible i^iMl h 1 THE CATHEDRAL OF AREQUIPA AND MOUNT CHACHANI. CHAC N I
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