The Andes and the Amazon Part 21

Pearl Barley 400 " arroba.

Pepper, India 70 " pound.

Plows free.

Pork 600 " arroba.

Powder 200 " pound.

Paper, Straw 30 " "

Pilot Bread 150 " arroba.

Roman Cement 50 " "

Rosin 1,200 Sieves, iron wire 30 " pound.

" bra.s.s 50 " "

Shoes, Rubber 400 " "

Store Trucks 900 " article.

Shooks, boxes 400 " arroba.

Soap, Yellow 30 " pound.

Scales, simple 120 " "

Tar and Pitch 200 " arroba.

Tortoise-sh.e.l.l 2,500 " pound.

Tea 450 " "

Twine, Cotton 300 " "

Trunks, 2 to 4 palms 2,700 " article.

" over 4 " 3,600 " "

Tobacco, chewing 4,800 " arroba.

" cut 9,600 " arroba.

This Tariff went into operation February 23, 1861.

ADDENDA.

_Orchilla_, page 29.--This valuable lichen comes chiefly from Tumbez. It is not found on the rocks, like the orchilla of the Old World, but grows on various trees. The foliage of a tree disappears when the orchilla commences. The sea air is indispensable to its production, as it is found only near the coast.

_Religious Intolerance_, p. 91.--The expression "Protestant dogs" has since been publicly repeated by a priest in a sermon, who told the people to confess, or they would be treated in a similar way. It called forth a remonstrance from Mr. Hamilton, the British Minister, directed to the archbishop, declaring such conduct inhuman and unchristian. The Pope's Nuncio left Quito for good in July, 1869.

_Fish in the Quito Valley_, p. 107.--Dr. Gill informs me that the true name of this little fish is _Cyclopium Humboldtii_, Swainson. It belongs to the sub-family Trachelypterinae, under Siluridae.

_Hummers' Nests_, p. 108.--They are not always of a lengthened form, as the text would imply, but are sometimes quite shallow. They are invariably lined with the softest vegetable materials and covered with moss. The nests are not as compact as those of our Northern hummer, and, so far as we observed, are never s.h.i.+ngled with flat lichens.

_Humboldt in 1802_, p. 156.--He spent five months in the valley of Quito.

_Pebas Fossils_, p. 282.--In a letter to the author, Mr. Darwin says: "Your discovery of marine sh.e.l.ls high up the Amazon possesses _extreme_ interest, not only in itself, but as one more most striking instance how rash it is to a.s.sert that any deposit is not a marine formation because it does not contain fossils. As for myself, I never believed for a moment in Aga.s.siz's idea of the origin of the Amazonian formation."

Aga.s.siz "candidly confesses (Lyell's _Principles_, i., 468) that he failed to discover any of those proofs which we are accustomed to regard, even in temperate lat.i.tudes, as essential for the establishment of the former existence of glaciers where they are now no more. No glaciated pebbles, or far-transported angular blocks with polished and striated sides; no extensive surface of rock, smooth, and traversed by rectilinear furrows, were observed." The fossiliferous bed at Pebas is as plainly _in situ_ as the Medina sandstone at Genesee Falls.

_Tropical Flowers_, p. 292.--"During twelve years spent amid the grandest tropical vegetation, I have seen nothing comparable to the effect produced on our landscapes by gorse, broom, heather, wild hyacinths, hawthorns, purple orchises, and b.u.t.tercups."--Wallace's _Malay Archipelago_.

_Coca-plant_, p. 293.--The engraving conveys the impression that the leaves are parallel-veined; but the coca is a dicotyledon, with the under surface of the leaf strongly marked with veins, of which two, in addition to the midrib, run parallel with the margin.

_Pedrero_, Map.--This town on the Rio Negro is also written _Pedreira_.

THE END.