The earth and its inhabitants .. . Vtest cV bre^nwcK Mik». including women and children, has been attracted to this industrial centre. Boli-vian traders and carriers come to .share in the general movement, while water,vegetables and other provisions are supplied by the village of Pari, in anupland Andean vallej south of Tarapaca ——A\TOF.\GASTA. Puiillos, or the Ducklings, so named from three islets which seem to floatabout in the middle of the bay, takes part in the nitrate business, though to a farless extent than Iquique, its railway communications not being yet complete
The earth and its inhabitants .. . Vtest cV bre^nwcK Mik». including women and children, has been attracted to this industrial centre. Boli-vian traders and carriers come to .share in the general movement, while water,vegetables and other provisions are supplied by the village of Pari, in anupland Andean vallej south of Tarapaca ——A\TOF.\GASTA. Puiillos, or the Ducklings, so named from three islets which seem to floatabout in the middle of the bay, takes part in the nitrate business, though to a farless extent than Iquique, its railway communications not being yet completed. I. ooo TOPOGEAPHY OF CHILI. 453 Here also the salines and nitrate deposits of the plateau arc very rich, and maytake the place of those farther north when exhausted. Formerly the headland ofPabellon de Pica, at the north foot of Mount Carrasco, south of Patillos, possessedenormous g-uano beds, which had been worked even before those of the ChinchaArchipelago. But the seaquake of 1877, which overwhelmed Iquique and Arica,nearly made a clean sweep of the village of Pabellon. Of 400 houses only tworemained standing, and all the guano was washed away. Other ports follow southwards, such as HuanilloH, TocopiUa with its copper-foundries, and Cobija or La Mar, this last well known as having formerly beenthe only port possessed by Bolivia on the Pacific coast. But the lack of com-munication with the interior, the complete absence of all harbour works, and thevast distance from the large cities of Bolivia, prevented Cobija from benefiting bythe commercial monopoly derived from its political situa
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