1050 General Notes. [ 
line of fault, finds its way to the Pacific through the wall of the 
western cordillera, the only great valley that breaks that 
ous rampart from Patagonia to Darien. To the north 
second area of upraised tablelands occurs, with the vo 
Herveo, Tolima and Santa Isabel on its southern limit, and 
is no doubt that this upheaval once converted the valley 
Upper Cauca into a lake, but at length the river worked y 
northward along a line of fracture paralle! to the opposing we 
ern cordillera, and it now flows through one of the ¢ 
ravines imaginable. fer 
The State of Antioquia occupies this tableland, and is a 
district with a healthy climate anda hardy, industrious po 
cordillera Post-tertiary gravels, such as occur at the sea-l 
found ata height of 6009 feet. N 
This region was called by the Indians Zenufana, 
Gold.” Its gold mines were worked by Indiane E rage 
low grade of civilization, but tributaries of the higher r 
great Indian road, connecting Bogota, the capital 
with the Zenú and Darien kingdoms, traversed the counti 
rivers of the more elevated regions are also rich m., 
15,000 of the natives of Antioquia are engaged in m 
The Patia valley has a climate of its own, intermedi 
the hot damp climate of the coast and the warm @iy 
the interior. Cacao flourishes near El Castigo, sometl 
ing a height of 120 feet; fine coffee is produced 0 lo 
land, vanilla grows wild in such abundance that its 10 
roots obstruct passage through the woods, and caoui 
balsams and Brazil wood are found. 
this it moves with a scarcely perceptible current añ 
since the river above the pool is in volume many 
