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The Andes and the Amazon. 



Cotocachi, and Atantaqiii 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 foundation, and thrown ten feet distant. 



The large stone fountain in the Plaza was thrown 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 



