Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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VALPARAISO AND SANTIAGO
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0 te 10 HuhoTTu TOPOGEAPHY OF CHILI. 459 continent, and in tlie northern it is outstrijjped by San Francisco alone.Relatively to its population, scarcely more than 200,000, it covers a vast space,all the houses, as is usual ia districts subject to earthquakes, being low even inthe business quarters, and generally built round one, two or even three jJrt^/os,that is, courts or inclosures planted with trees. These structures are themselvesinterrupted by broad thoroughfares, squares and avenues with long strips ofverdure, so that, seen from the crests of the encircling hills, Santiago has morethe aspect of a vast park than of a great city. The atmosphere is laden with thefragrance of orange-groves, while the former grazing-grounds with their sparseand scrubby vegetation have been transformed to lovely gardens by the fertilisingwaters of the Muipo canal, the construction of which took over a quarter of acentury, 1817 to 1844. Standing at an altitude of 1,755 feet on the broad level plain b

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