NOTICES OF PERU. 



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The quantity of guano yearly employed in Peru, is estimat- 

 ed to be, from 



Mollendo, - - - 25,000 fan6gas. 



Cocotea, - - - 6,000 « 



Charicay, - - - 5,000 " 



Arica and Tarapaca, - 5,000 " 



Total, 41,000 fanegas. 



The above account is taken from a paper on the subject, 

 published in the Memorial de Ciencias Naturales, y de Ih- 

 dustria Nacional y Estranjera, edited by M» De Rivero and 

 N. De Pierola. Lima. Vol. I. 1838.'' 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Islay— Landing place — Town — Arequipanian ladies — Post-office regulation- 

 Notions of the captain of the port about politics. 



About two o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th of Septem- 

 ber, 1832, we anchored in the roads of Islay. The charts of 

 this part of the coast of Peru, are far from being accurate. 

 This port is laid down as being in 16° 44' of south latitude, 

 and in 72° 40' of west longitude from Greenwich. The true 

 latitude is 17° 1' — seventeen miles farther south than marked 

 in the charts ; and the longitude is 72° — forty minutes to the 

 eastward of the chart. By the chart, Arequipa is forty miles 

 from Islay, but the actual distance is ninety. Similar errors 

 are found in several places along this region of Peru. 



The land to the north and south is barren and rocky, and 

 lower than it usually is along the coast. About two leagues 

 back, it rises to a very considerable height. In the gullies and 

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