Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . Monasteries.—Heavy rains here.—The Misti vol-cano.—The Sillar trachyte.—Celebrated men of Arequipa.—Derivation of its name.—Story of first settlement.—Railwaysof Mr. Henry ^leiggs.—Reflections on their success.—FromArequipa on the road to Puno.—Mineral wells of Yura.—Station of Quisco.—Aguas Calientes.—Hospital here.—Mag-netic stone at Cachipesane. The station at Arequipa, with its appurtenancesof managers residence, office, artisans houses,engine-sheds, goods-stores, and so forth, occupiesthirty acres of ground. This includes the stati
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . Monasteries.—Heavy rains here.—The Misti vol-cano.—The Sillar trachyte.—Celebrated men of Arequipa.—Derivation of its name.—Story of first settlement.—Railwaysof Mr. Henry ^leiggs.—Reflections on their success.—FromArequipa on the road to Puno.—Mineral wells of Yura.—Station of Quisco.—Aguas Calientes.—Hospital here.—Mag-netic stone at Cachipesane. The station at Arequipa, with its appurtenancesof managers residence, office, artisans houses,engine-sheds, goods-stores, and so forth, occupiesthirty acres of ground. This includes the stationfor the Puno Une, which is divided from thatof Mollendo by a road of ordinary width—bothcommunicating by rails. The managers () house, when completed, will be, as re-gards comfort, combined with luxury, a palace inminiature. It has a top-story, open at all sides,which is the perfection of coolness and ventilation,as well as an indescribable kind of the basement of the building extends the -/ft;.. lAIiRICADE IN AREQUIPA DURING SIEGE OF 1837. [Vol I. p. 86. CilAl. VI.| AfiltMKAIil,! NTIMNTIONH. 87 lino of ()iric(\s Ioi j)(n^(T-tickotH :ni<l of /^oodH-storos ul()n;^si(l(^ tin* platforin. At ri^Hil aiigh^H,is Olio lino of neat cottagos lor \\\r. thosc^ tli(M(» aro two otli(»r similar liri(!8wiiliin (lie (Miclosuic—ono luwci, aiui Lliu (jtlicr infVonl of ilio tickot-offico. in fact, ovorytliini^about. \\(n\ is iiiado on tho stylo of porfectada})!ability, which cliaractorizos all tho worksof Mr. Moiggs dono in Peru. Nearly a inilo and a half from the station is thocentre of the town, to which I was obliged towalk, with a porter carrying my luggage, as thereare no conveyances in Arequipa except horses,and bullock-carts of very antediluvian the station I met Mr. William Harrison,raanaoino^ aoont for Messrs. William Gibbs andCo., and, although I brought to him no introduc-tion, was invited to s
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