The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2^ a o TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 191 enjoys the benefit of some extremely rich saline hot springs (122 Fahr.) in theCasanare basin, which are utilised by the neighbouring Tunebo Indians for variou8maladies. The Cocui district abounds in coal, iron, copper, argentiferous lead, p^. cinnabar and salt, resources hitherto untouched, owing to the absence of prac-ticable roads. AVest of the Cocui the Sogamoso bends round to pierce the parallel ridges ofthe Cordilleras through a series of deep gorges in a romantic region where all thesettlements are situated at some di
The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2^ a o TOPOGEAPHY OF COLOMBIA. 191 enjoys the benefit of some extremely rich saline hot springs (122 Fahr.) in theCasanare basin, which are utilised by the neighbouring Tunebo Indians for variou8maladies. The Cocui district abounds in coal, iron, copper, argentiferous lead, p^. cinnabar and salt, resources hitherto untouched, owing to the absence of prac-ticable roads. AVest of the Cocui the Sogamoso bends round to pierce the parallel ridges ofthe Cordilleras through a series of deep gorges in a romantic region where all thesettlements are situated at some distance from the river, on the elevated terraces 192 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. or ill thu iiphuid valleys. Such are (JnzUja and Mogotcs, the latter about .imiles from the Iloyo de Ion Pajufon ( Birds Hole ), a chasm 600 feet deep andonly 150 in circumference, in wliich hover flocks of the same species of devil-bird that frequents the Caripo eaves. San AiulrcK, noted for its schools, stands at an elevation of over (),000 feet, ina mountain vallej-^ near Lake Ortices, about midway between the industrious townof Malaya in the south-east and the flourishing city of Bucaramanga in the LebrijaViilley. Soutli of this place flows the Suarez (Saravita), wliich joins the Sogamosoin one of the most rugged r
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