The earth and its inhabitants .. . d Trujillo contend for the honour of having been thefirst towns to throw off the Spanish yoke. The Lohos Islands, off Lambayeque,have acquired considerable economic importance from their guano-beds, estimatedoriginally at 8,000,000 tons. 318 SOUTH AMERICA—TUE ANDES EEOIONS. Pacasmayo—Tkij 11,1,0—CniMU. The port of Pacasmayo, south of the Jequetepeque coast stream, presents thesame general aspect as Eten; it does a brisk export trade in sugar, hides, andsilver ores, and is connected by rail with tlie inland towns of San Pedro ile Lloc,Chepen, and Guadalupe. Bu
The earth and its inhabitants .. . d Trujillo contend for the honour of having been thefirst towns to throw off the Spanish yoke. The Lohos Islands, off Lambayeque,have acquired considerable economic importance from their guano-beds, estimatedoriginally at 8,000,000 tons. 318 SOUTH AMERICA—TUE ANDES EEOIONS. Pacasmayo—Tkij 11,1,0—CniMU. The port of Pacasmayo, south of the Jequetepeque coast stream, presents thesame general aspect as Eten; it does a brisk export trade in sugar, hides, andsilver ores, and is connected by rail with tlie inland towns of San Pedro ile Lloc,Chepen, and Guadalupe. But far more important for its future prosperity is theprojected line to Cajamarca and the Amazons valley, which will probably formpart of the trans-continental trunk lino between the Atlantic and the of San Pedro de Lloc the rails penetrate into the mineral district ofthe Jequetepeque, wliich river is followed along all its windings up to its very Fig. 121.—Teujillo and Gea-vd 1 : 600,000. TT^. West or Greenwic^i Oto5Fatbouis. 6 to 10FaUiuma. Beptha. 10 to 50Fathoms. 60 Fathomsaud upwards. 23 Miles. source. Farther on the lijie ascends in zigzags up the slopes to a breach in theCordillera at an altitude of about J,-300 feet, through which it descends to theAmazonian slope, reaching Cajamarca by a great bend round to the this point, in the direction of Chachapoyas and Moyobamba, it enters alittle-known region, where the surveys are not yet complete. South-east of Pacasmayo follow the wretched little port of Garifa de MocJie(now Salacerri) at the foot of the Cerro Carretas, and the equally exposed road-steads of Uuanchaco and Malahrigo ( Bad Shelter ). The railway, starling fromS ilaverri, penetrates northwards to the rich plantations of the Piio Moche, Trujillo, TOPOGRAPHY OF PERU. 819 Huanchaco, and the Chicama plains, which last have since 1860 again beenbrought under cultivation by reopeniug the old Indian irrigating can
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