. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon . -tvi: Aa. 1 ??<-??? *^^^.;*^.^C,jg^; 1 PL 16. PrrVfernazzi d 7. A P A R 0 Winner & Mc. Gui^ans kth, Phila.^ THE UPPER UCAYALI. 209 cade, was, by the barometer, nine hundred ancj four feet below it; thusgiving the river a fall of .87 of a foot per mile. He says that if the navigation of the Ucayali is attempted, it wouldbe well to make a port at this point, and open a road thence to thevalley of Sla. Ana, ij^ which Echarate is situated, and which is exceed-in
. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon . -tvi: Aa. 1 ??<-??? *^^^.;*^.^C,jg^; 1 PL 16. PrrVfernazzi d 7. A P A R 0 Winner & Mc. Gui^ans kth, Phila.^ THE UPPER UCAYALI. 209 cade, was, by the barometer, nine hundred ancj four feet below it; thusgiving the river a fall of .87 of a foot per mile. He says that if the navigation of the Ucayali is attempted, it wouldbe well to make a port at this point, and open a road thence to thevalley of Sla. Ana, ij^ which Echarate is situated, and which is exceed-ingly fertile, producmg large quantities of Peruvian bark, with coca,and many other tropical productions. M. Casteloau thinks that this last cascade is the first impassable,barrier to the navigation of the Ucayali upwards; but he found many*places below this where the river had but a depth of three feet, andmany, though unimportant, rapids. Indeed, two hundred and seventymiles below this, he describes a strait, called the Vuelta del Diablo, asa dangerous passage, blocked up by heavy trunks of trees, againstwhich the current dashes with great violence. At two hundred and sixt
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