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a species of Tacsonia, called by the natives tumbo. The 

 flower has a very long tube, and is of a deep rich rose-colour : 

 and a delicious fresco, or sherbet, is made of the egg-shaped 

 fruit. 



In addition to the baths of pure spring-water at Tingo 

 and Savandia, the medicinal baths of Yura are a great resort 

 during the winter months. Yura is thirty miles to the noi-th- 

 west, and is situated, like Arequijm, just under the range of 

 the Cordilleras, The road leads over very broken ground, 

 where the rugged spurs from the Andes project out into the 

 desert. In March the weary arid wilderness was enlivened 

 by wild flowers, bushes of yellow and purple Solanums, bright 

 orange Compositce, and, in one place, a carpet of little purple 

 dwarf iris. The baths are in a green ravine, with tall willow- 

 trees and maize-fields, watered by a little rivulet. In this 

 narrow glen, bounded on one side by sandstone mountains, 

 which here form the base of the volcano, and on the other by 

 a ridge of trachyte, there are two places where thermal 

 waters bubble out of the rocks, one being ferruginous and the 

 other sulphurous. At the sulphurous baths there are some 

 solid stone buildings, intended as lodgings for the bathers, 

 with heavy arcades, and long vaulted rooms with no windows, 

 and without furniture, for, as at Tingo and Savandia, all 

 visitors bring their beds, tables, chairs, crockery, and cooking- 

 utensils with them. In the bath-room there are fom* square 

 basins, faced with stone, of diflerent temperatures, and called 

 the Vejeto (87° Falir.), the Desague (88"), the Sepvltura (89"), 

 and the Tigre (90°). They are said to cure dysentery, rheu- 

 matism, and cutaneous diseases. The rivulet flows down the 

 glen and joins the river of Yura near a village called Calera, 

 where most of the soap is manufactured which is con- 

 sumed in Arequipa. Great quantities of carbonate of soda 

 are collected from the sandstone rock, which gives employ- 

 ment to the people of the village. The land is divided 



