KANSAS) Clly 
REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 
SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 
VOL. IV. JULY, 1880. NO. 3. 
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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF ORTON AND PERU. 
BY DR. I. D. HEATH, WYANDOTT, KANSAS. 
James Orton, fresh from Andover, spent two years in European travel. In 
1866, while occupying the chair in Natural History in Vassar College, Pough- 
keepsie, he traveled the continent of South America from west to east, through 
Equador, by way of Guayaquil, Quito, the river Napo, and down the Amazon. 
He brought home a large and rare collection of objects in Natural History and 
from his note book wrote out, in glowing words, the story of his adventures un- 
der the title of ‘‘ The Andes and the Amazon.” 
Seven years later, in 1873, while the end of the Pacasmayo railroad track in 
northern Peru was near the 50th mile post, your speaker was standing on the 
tender of the locomotive which was drawing a train of flat cars loaded with rail- 
road iron to the track layers, when he saw on one of the loads of iron a long- 
haired, red shirted stranger, in conversation with a civil engineer—quite likely an 
_ Irishman asking for employment. Mr. Cartlan called and gave an introduction 
to Professor Orton. He had just arrived at the end of the track on his 
second trans-continental journey across South America. This acquaintance was 
~ most pleasant, and only ended with his untimely death on lake Titicaca, five years 
later. The notes of his second expedition were added to the revised edition of 
“<The Andes and the Amazons. 
. In the northeastern division of Bolivia—the Department of the Beni—there 
_ is a province embracing four times the area of the state of Kansas through which 
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