. The earth and its inhabitants ... yeque and Trujillo contend for the honour of having been thefirst towns to throw off the Spanish yoke. The Lobos Islands, off Lambayeque,have acquired considerable economic importance from their guano-beds, estimatedoriginally at 8,000,000 tons. 318 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Pacasmayo—Trujillo—Chimu. The port of Pacasmnijo, south of the Jequetepeque coast stream, presents thesame general aspect as Eten ; it does a brisk export trade in sugar, hides, andsilver ores, and is connected by rail with the inland towns of San Pedro de LIoc,Chepen, and Guadalu
. The earth and its inhabitants ... yeque and Trujillo contend for the honour of having been thefirst towns to throw off the Spanish yoke. The Lobos Islands, off Lambayeque,have acquired considerable economic importance from their guano-beds, estimatedoriginally at 8,000,000 tons. 318 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Pacasmayo—Trujillo—Chimu. The port of Pacasmnijo, south of the Jequetepeque coast stream, presents thesame general aspect as Eten ; it does a brisk export trade in sugar, hides, andsilver ores, and is connected by rail with the inland towns of San Pedro de LIoc,Chepen, and Guadalupe. But far more important for its future prosperity is theprojected line to Cajamarca and the Amazons valley, which will probably formpart of the trans-continental trunk line between the Atlantic and the of San Pedro de Lloc the rails penetrate into the mineral district ofthe Jequetepeque, which river is followed along all its windings up to its very Fig. 121.—Teujillo and Grand 1 : 600, West or breenwIcH 78°40 Oto5Fathoms. 5 to 10Fathoms. Depths. 10 to 50Fathoma. 50 Fathomsaud upwards. 25 Miles. source. Farther on the line ascends in zigzags up the slopes to a breach in theCordillera at an altitude of about 9,500 feet, through which it descends to theAmazonian slope, reaching Cajamarca by a great bend round to the ^ond this point, in the direction of Chachapojas and Moyobamba, it enters alittle-known region, where the surveys are not yet complete. South-east of Pacasmayo follow the w^retched little port of Garita de Moche(now Salaverrï) at the foot of the Cerro Carretas, and the equally exposed road-steads of Huanchaco and Malahrigo ( Bad Shelter). The railway, starting fromSalaverri, penetrates northwards to the rich plantations of the Bio Moche, Trujillo, TOPOGRAPHY OF PERU. 819 HuancLaco, and the Cliicama plains, which last have since 18G0 again beenbrought under cultivation by reopening the old Indian irrigating
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