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SOUTH AMEEICA— THE ANDES EEQIONS. 



upper Maranon ; the second forming a junction with the Callao-Linia line to reach 

 the Rio Jauja valley and ramify thence over the inter- A^ndean plateaux ; the 

 third starting from Mollendo and climbing the slopes to Arequipa, then crossing 



Fig. 135. — Communications of Peku. 



Sc;de 1 ; 18 OOO.ddO. 



Railways 



Deep-sea Navigation. 



Coast Navisration. 



310 Miles. 



the Cordillera and descending to Puno, here sending off two branches, one 

 towards Cuzco, the other towards Bolivia. 



Of these three trunk lines, the southern made most rapid progress, and before 

 the disastrous Chilian war the section between the coast and Lake Titicaca was 

 already finished. The Lima route had reached the crest of the Andes by an 



