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The Andes and the Amazons. 



Lima is beautiful from the sea: its stately domes and 

 spires rise out of the plain only seven miles from the 

 ocean, and just behind the city the glorious Andes ascend 

 abruptly to the sky, while in the foreground are busy Cal- 

 lao and gay Chorillos, Callao is the great port of Peru. 



Plan of Callao and Lima. 



Five miles in front of it, breaking the swell of the Pacific, 

 stands the little rocky island of San Lorenzo, a tliousand 

 feet high. The steamer anchors amid a forest of shijv 



