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sea-port, also with Chorillous, a popular 

 watering-place, and with Ancon and Chancay, 

 two small ports to the northward; a line to 

 Pisco, 145 miles to the southward, is also 

 projected. 



The greatest undertaking of this kind is the 

 Oroya railway, across the Andes ; it is not too 

 much to say that this is the most wonderful 

 railway in the world. 



Starting from Callao, the line follows the 

 course of the Bimac valley, rising gradually 

 until at St. Bartoleme, forty-seven miles, it 

 attains a height of nearly 5000 feet. From 

 thence, winding among the gorges and precipices 

 of the mountains, it spans a chasm at Yerrugas, 

 by a bridge 700 feet long, the height of the 

 bridge above the water way being 300 feet, after 

 which, piercing the Andes at the enormous 

 altitude of 15,645 feet, the line descends to 

 Oroya the terminus, 12,178 feet above the level 

 of the sea. 



This great work is justly considered Mr. 

 Meigg's chef-d'oeuvre ; the object of the rail- 



