Under the Southern cross in South America . re of Christ is twenty-six feet in height;one hand holds a cross and other is extended ,as if invoking a bless-ing. It was erected in 1904 as a symbol of perpetual peace be-tween the two nations, and was cast in bronze from melted cannonbelonging to both. On the base of the pedestal are the emblematicfigures of Chile and Argentina clasping hands as if ratifying thesettlement of the boundary dispute. One of the tablets bears thefollowing inscription: Sooner shall these mountains crumlile into dust than the people ofArgentina and Chile break the peace
Under the Southern cross in South America . re of Christ is twenty-six feet in height;one hand holds a cross and other is extended ,as if invoking a bless-ing. It was erected in 1904 as a symbol of perpetual peace be-tween the two nations, and was cast in bronze from melted cannonbelonging to both. On the base of the pedestal are the emblematicfigures of Chile and Argentina clasping hands as if ratifying thesettlement of the boundary dispute. One of the tablets bears thefollowing inscription: Sooner shall these mountains crumlile into dust than the people ofArgentina and Chile break the peace to which they have pledged themselvesat the feet of Christ the Redeemer. Leaving this place we were on the down grade, and though theroad was winding we rapidly made the descent until Los Cuevaswas reached. Indeed so rapid was our pace that it must haveresembled a Roman chariot race, with this difference, that the roadwe bounded and bumped over was exceedingly narrow, with manyturnings and slopings of such precipitous descent that a sudden. N*. 761. PropIwlaiJ del, Editor Adulta OooradI, Sluitiago. CHRIST THE REDEEMER 363 NATURES MAJESTIC WORKSHOP 365 plunge or runaway might have resulted in us reaching Cuevas inpieces by being hurled in fragments down the steep decline againstthe walls of the town. But we landed safe, though almost exhaustedand veneered, cap-a-pie with grime and dust. We were right gladto sit down to a rather meagre lay-out of thin soup, vegetables, andtough steak, probably llama joints. That simple dejeuner at the timetasted better to me than any elaborate table d bote I have everhad at the most pretentious hotels, for I was both cold and hungry. Los Cuevas, which signifies the Caves, is, as we have said, whereone gets his first view of Argentina. It is depressing, a scene of vastdesolation, a wilderness of miserable solitude with not a vestige ofvegetation to relieve the monotony. Yet there is a marvelous color-ing in the rock strata, and this with the white
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