Caldcleugh. My excursion
only cost me twenty-four days, and never did I more deeply enjoy an
equal space of time. A few days afterwards I returned to Mr.
Corfield's house at Valparaiso.
CHAPTER XVI.
(PLATE 76. LIMA AND SAN LORENZO.)
Coast-road to Coquimbo.
Great loads carried by the miners.
Coquimbo.
Earthquake.
Step-formed terraces.
Absence of recent deposits.
Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations.
Excursion up the valley.
Road to Guasco.
Deserts.
Valley of Copiap?.
Rain and Earthquakes.
Hydrophobia.
The Despoblado.
Indian ruins.
Probable change of climate.
River-bed arched by an earthquake.
Cold gales of wind.
Noises from a hill.
Iquique.
Salt alluvium.
Nitrate of soda.
Lima.
Unhealthy country.
Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an earthquake.
Recent subsidence.
Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition.
Plain with embedded shells and fragments of pottery.
Antiquity of the Indian Race.
NORTHERN CHILE AND PERU.
APRIL 27, 1835.
I set out on a journey to Coquimbo, and thence through Guasco to
Copiap?, where Captain Fitz Roy kindly offered to pick me up in the
"Beagle." The distance in a straight line along the shore northward
is only 420 miles; but my mode of travelling made it a very long
journey.
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