APPENDIX.

TABLE OF APPROXIMATE HEIGHTS.

Name of place. Height above sea-level. Productions.
Feet.
San Antonio, lowest rapid 250 } Sugar, maize, yams, plantains, mandioca, tobacco, cocoa.
Guajará Mirim, upper rapid 510 }
Exaltacion 710 }
Trinidad 800 }
Coni 950 } Ditto, and coffee and coca.
Santa Cruz 1,615 }
Cristal Maio 1,920 }
El Chaco 3,250 }
Cuesta del Lina Tambo 6,150 } Barley and potatoes.
Inca Corral 7,715 }
Los Jocotales 8,000 }
Cuesta de Malaga 12,550 }
Cochi-janchi 10,950 }
Cochabamba 8,450 } Ditto, and wheat and fruits.
Pass near Totora 11,500 } Barley and potatoes.
Totora 10,000 }
Misque 7,000 } Wheat, barley, etc., also fruits.
Aiquile 7,850 }
Chinguri 6,850 } Sugar, maize, etc.
Quiroga 7,000 }
Rio Grande 5,925 }
Palca 6,800 }
Jaboncillo, top of cuesta 8,615 } Barley and potatoes.
Masa Cruz, ditto 8,550 }
Canto Molino 7,200 }
Huata, foot of cuesta 8,200 }
” top of cuesta 10,100 }
Sucre 9,200 }
Nutshucc 8,000 } Maize, fruits, etc.
Rio Pilcomayo 7,000 }
Pampa Tambo 9,850 } Barley and potatoes, up to about 12,500 feet.
Quebrada Honda, top 12,000 }
” ” bottom 11,200 }
Potosí 13,500 }
Cerro de Potosí, summit 15,500 }
Tarapaya 11,200 }
Yocalla 11,450 }
Cuesta de Leñas, top 14,400 }
Pampa de Aullagas 12,400 }
Poopo 12,430 }
Oruro 12,530 }
Curahuara de Carangas 12,890 }
Sajáma, summit 21,470 }

Exports from the Port of Arica during the Years 1872-4, the Bulk of the Articles being the Produce of the Republic of Bolivia.

Minerals and precious metals. Soft
dollars.
Soft
dollars.
Barilla, copper 178,748 cwts. of 100 lbs. @ 18 3,217,464
” tin 29,923 16 478,768
Copper, in bars 1,078 38 40,964
Tin, in bars 29,255 30 877,650
Silver, pure 424,600 marks of 7·4 oz. 12½ 5,307,500
” old plate 2,083 10 20,830
” money 5,265 cases 90 473,850
” hard dollars 1,414,880
” soft dollars 265,149
Gold, dust and grain 11,945 oz. 20 238,900
Ditto, coin 6,010 20 120,200
General Merchandise.
Chocolate, manufactured 67 cwts. of 100 lbs. 65 4,355
Cocoa, in nibs 50 36 1,800
Coca 531 60 31,860
Cochineal 750 lbs. ¾ 562
Coffee 943 cwts. of 100 lbs. 38 35,834
Cotton 1,856 36 66,816
Elixir of coca 9 dozen 15 135
Guaraná 40 cwts. of 100 lbs. 15 600
Maté 153 50 7,650
Olives 77 18 1,386
Peruvian bark 28,835 80 2,306,800
Ratania root 20 60 1,200
Spirits Italia 139 dozen 18 2,502
Tobacco 226 cwts. of 100 lbs. 40 9,040
Hides, ox 15,136 5 75,680
Skins, Chinchilla 7,179 dozen 25 179,475
” Biscacha 16 10 160
” Vicuña 4,586 1 4,586
” Goat 2,532 ¾ 1,899
” Sheep 150 dozen 10 1,500
Wool, Alpaca 17,807 cwts. of 100 lbs. 61 1,086,227
” Vicuña 21 80 1,680
” Guanaco 70 105
” Sheep 1,153 29 33,437
$16,311,444
At 6½ per £ = £2,509,453
Average value of twelve months’ export £836,484

Table showing the Temperature, Rainfall, and Depth of Flood-water below the Falls of San Antonio on the Madeira River, from Observations taken by the Author in 1873.

Month. Average Temperature. Rainfall
in inches.
Flood-water
in feet.
Lowest. Highest.
January 75° 83° 15·85 34
February 73° 82° 10·97 42
March 74° 82° 14·59 46
April 73° 83° 11·01 42
May 73° 83° 5·96 35
June 70° 85° 2·56 27
July 71° 87° 0·32 21
August 71° 88° 1·07 15
September 72° 88° 5·70 7
October 73° 88° 1·94 9
November 73° 84° 11·32 9
December 74° 86° 10·03 27

Estimate of Time and Expense of a Journey from Liverpool to Pará, thence across the Continent, and return to England.