314 



ROUTE BY THE MADEIRA. 



arrive generally from Baltimore in one hundred and eighteen days, by 

 Cape Horn — often delayed on their way through the territory of Peru 

 from the seaport of Arica. Goods by the Madeira route, sent over the 

 Cordillera range to the Pacific coast, might get there one month before a 

 ship could arrive from Europe on the eastern coast of the United States, 

 by two oceans or the old route. 



