. The earth and its inhabitants ... the shipping has to ride at anchor in the offing, to the windwardof the shelter afforded by a cluster of reefs and islets. Hence a new harbourhas been selected, some 12 miles north-eastwards, in the small but deep andwell-sheltered creek of Guanta, which is now connected hj rail with line runs south-eastwards up the Neveri, in the direction of the Naricualvalley. In the sandstone hills of this district have recently been discovered * Société de Géographie de Faris, November 20tli, 1891. LA GUAIRA. Ill some beds of a coal which burns with a
. The earth and its inhabitants ... the shipping has to ride at anchor in the offing, to the windwardof the shelter afforded by a cluster of reefs and islets. Hence a new harbourhas been selected, some 12 miles north-eastwards, in the small but deep andwell-sheltered creek of Guanta, which is now connected hj rail with line runs south-eastwards up the Neveri, in the direction of the Naricualvalley. In the sandstone hills of this district have recently been discovered * Société de Géographie de Faris, November 20tli, 1891. LA GUAIRA. Ill some beds of a coal which burns with a very long flame, leaving but a slightquantity of ash. These carboniferous sandstones would appear to belong to thePermian system.* La Giiaira— of the Neveri the low and marshy beach develops a semicircle of over120 miles to Cape Codera, the eastern headland of the Caracas range. Fartheron lies the deep inlet of CaraveUada, former port of Caracas, abandoned in 1587. Fisf. 37.—Caracas ; View taken above the Since then the foreign trade of the country has been mainly centred in the portof La Guaira, which occupies a narrow shelving rock between the mountains andthe deep sea. A few rows of houses, following the windings of the shore-linefor some miles, are continued westwards by the palm-groves and villas of Maiquetia,and eastwards by the hotels and baths of Macuto. Planted thus against loftycliffs, exposed to a blazing sun, La Guaira, although not unhealthy, is one of thehottest places in the New World, a hell like Mascat, and some other warmcorners in the Eastern hemisphere. Although its mean temperature of 82° to* Maurice Chaper, Mission sur la côte nord du Venezuela. 112 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. 83° Fahr. is exceeded by that of some spots on the same coast and on the llanos,the heat is rendered more oppressive by its moist atmosphere and sultry nights,when the glass seldom falls more than five or six degrees. Till recently La Guaira had
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