. The earth and its inhabitants ... I. ■St A -^ \ • -> * t f -^ -v v *v« r ,--^/ 7b° West oF breer Railway. 5^ Coal. Roads. Gold and Silver. 38 Miles. the spot by the native jewellers. Medellin is a university city, with technicalschools and some valuable private collections. The surrounding district presents the rare spectacle in Colombia of real carriageroads, radiating in various directions up and down the Force valley and north-westwards to Ana, on the road to Antioquia. Several places follow southwardsas far as the Alto de San Miguel at the head of the valley ; amongst them are TOPOGEA
. The earth and its inhabitants ... I. ■St A -^ \ • -> * t f -^ -v v *v« r ,--^/ 7b° West oF breer Railway. 5^ Coal. Roads. Gold and Silver. 38 Miles. the spot by the native jewellers. Medellin is a university city, with technicalschools and some valuable private collections. The surrounding district presents the rare spectacle in Colombia of real carriageroads, radiating in various directions up and down the Force valley and north-westwards to Ana, on the road to Antioquia. Several places follow southwardsas far as the Alto de San Miguel at the head of the valley ; amongst them are TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 201 Itagui and Envigado, the latter noted for its exceptionally high birth-rate ; fami-lies of 20 or even 25 childre/i are by no means rare, and one of the founders ofthe settlement, who died at the age of 93 in 1870, left behind him as many as700 direct descendants in the district. On the northern slopes the chief centres of culture are Cojmcabnna, Jivardoia,and Barhosa, future stations of the projected main tr
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