. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. Cathedral of Pudo. (From a Photos^iaph.) matter. The Quichua citizens hold their market in an-other plaza.* Pimo is the great centre of the alpaca trade, of whichAreqnipa is the mart. Considerable sheeps wool is alsoexported. Vienna wool brings $100 a quintal, but verylittle is to be had. The gold of Carabaya, the silver oresfrom numerous mines around the lake, and cinchona fromthe Beni, are destined to pass through Puno. There isplenty of iron in the region; but the coal would cost twiceas much as the iron. The Andes, at
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. Cathedral of Pudo. (From a Photos^iaph.) matter. The Quichua citizens hold their market in an-other plaza.* Pimo is the great centre of the alpaca trade, of whichAreqnipa is the mart. Considerable sheeps wool is alsoexported. Vienna wool brings $100 a quintal, but verylittle is to be had. The gold of Carabaya, the silver oresfrom numerous mines around the lake, and cinchona fromthe Beni, are destined to pass through Puno. There isplenty of iron in the region; but the coal would cost twiceas much as the iron. The Andes, at this latitude, have the enormous width of * As an illustration how commerce brings the ends of the earth together,I may mention that, while visiting the burial-towers of Sillustani, I lunched onbread from Chile, oysters from Maryland, salmon from California, sausagesfrom France, and water from the Lake Titicaca. 427 200 miles, and Pniio, the middle point, lies in that greatdepression, or table-land, hung between the two Cordille-ras, and extending from the sources of the Ucayali to be-yond Oruro. It is apparently a volcanic basin ; frag-ments of lava, porphyry, and jasper are scattered aroundthe lake; and towers of igneous rocks protrude throughthe sedimentary strata. It has an area of 16,000 squaremiles, and an oval shape with the small end near Oruro,an average width of one hundred miles, and a southerlyslope. Titicaca,* the largest lake in South America, has abouthalf the size of Ontario. It spreads over 2500 geograph-ical square miles, being one hundred miles long, with anaverage breadth of twenty-five miles. The water is slightlybrackish. It never freezes over, though ice forms in shal-low places. The chief feeders of the lake are the Mara-villas, Ramis, and Azangaro, the Rarais rising in a pond,or tarn (La Raya), which is also the source of a tributarj-to the Ucayali; so
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