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AIR VOLCANO 
OP 
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 
