There Are Burning Plains, The Home Of The Emu,
Armadillos, And Ants; Sandy Deserts, Where The Wind Drifts The Sand
Like Snow, Piling It Up In Ever-Shifting Hills About Thirty Feet In
Height.
Bolivia, shut in geographically and politically, is a world
in itself - a world of variety, in scenery, climate, products and
people.
Its capital city, La Paz, has a population of 70,000, but the
vast interior is almost uninhabited. In the number of inhabitants to
the square mile, Bolivia ranks the lowest of all the nations of the
earth.
Perhaps no country of the world has been, and is, so rich in precious
metals as Bolivia. "The mines of Potosi alone have furnished the
world over $1,500,000,000 worth of silver since the Spaniards first
took possession of them." [Footnote: "Protestant Missions in South
America."]
Bolivia can lay claim to the most wonderful body of water in the
world - Lake Titicaca. This lake, nearly two and a half miles high in
the air, is literally in the clouds. "Its lonely waters have no
outlet to the sea, but are guarded on their southern shores by
gigantic ruins of a prehistoric empire - palaces, temples, and
fortresses - silent, mysterious monuments of a long-lost golden age."
Some of the largest and most remarkable ruins of the world are found
on the shores of Lake Titicaca, and as this was the centre of the
great Incan Dynasty, that remarkable people have also left wonderful
remains, to build which stones thirty-eight feet long, eighteen feet
wide, and six feet thick, were quarried, carried and elevated.
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