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AIR VOLCANO 



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TURBACO. 



PLATE XLI. 



In order to avoid the excessive heats, and the 

 diseases which take place during* the summer at 

 Carthagena, and on the arid coasts of Baru and 

 Tierra Bomba, those Europeans, who are not 

 seasoned to the climate, remove inland to the 

 village of Turbaco. This small Indian village 

 stands on a hill, at the entrance of a majestic 

 forest, which extends toward the south and the 

 east as far as the canal of Mahates and the river 

 Magdalena. The houses are mostly built of 

 bamboos, and covered with palm leaves. Here 

 and there limpid springs rise out of a calcareous 

 rock, which contains numerous fragments of 



