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The Axdes aisT) the Amazon. 



Cotocachi, and Atantaqui are heaps of ruins. At Otovalo 

 6000 perished. After the first shock, not a wall a yard high 

 remained. Houses, in some instances, seemed to have been 

 cut from their foimdation, and thrown ten feet distant. 



The large stone fountain in the Plaza was thro^sm many 

 yards. The cotton factory, which was built on the edge of 

 a ravine, was by one stroke reduced to fragments. Such 

 was the force of the concussion, the looms smashed each 



