ANDACOLLO— LIMA— PANAMA- 

 JAMAICA. 



In company with Mr. Jolin Hamilton, a gentleman 

 well known in the mining districts of Chile, and a 

 worthy comrade to boot, I determined to visit the 

 establishment of Panulcillo and Pangue, extending my 

 visit to the mining town of Andacollo. Accordingly we 

 took the train from Coquimbo, which in four hours 

 landed us at Panulcillo ; we passed on our way the dis- 

 tricts of Tambillos and Higuerita, where the Guayacan 

 works have two agencies for the purchase .of metals. 

 Tambillos principally produces carbonates, of an average 

 ley of ten or twelve per cent., and the production of the 

 district may be put down at about one hundred and 

 twenty tons monthly. Penon, four miles ofi*, produces 

 principally rich hronces, averaging sixteen per cent; 

 but some ores are very rich, small lots of fifty to sixty 

 per cent being by no means uncommon : monthly pro- 

 duction about one hundred tons. Higuerita, a little 

 farther on, produces poor carbonates of six or seven per 

 cent the production is large, but hardly pays for the 

 working. There is nothing of interest in the general 

 aspect of these places; they are excessiyely hot and 

 extraordinarily dull, and the life of those condemned to 

 live there must be dreadful. The great point of interest 

 on the line is the cuesta or cutting which the train 

 ascends going from Tambillos to Higuerita. Although 

 the actual distance is not more than a very few miles, yet 



