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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



PERU. 



hundred feet. Steep barren hills rise like islands from the 

 plain, which is divided by straight mud-walls into large green 

 fields. In these scarcely a tree grows excepting a few wil- 

 lows, and an occasional clump of bananas and oranges. Lima, 



the " City of the Kings," must formerly have been a splen- 

 did town. The extraordinary number of churches gives it, 

 even at the present day, a peculiar and striking character, 

 especially when viewed from a short distance. 



