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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company

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Text Appearing Before Image: The dark waters,shouldered by tree-clothed mountains, of the Strait ofMagellan, reflect yellow and russet leaf-changes asbright as in the maple woods of Canada. Blue glaciers,pure snow heads and the delicate green of fern brakesare contrasted with the crimson of wild fuchsias andthe mass of glorious bloom of apple and cherry orchards.Farther north, where poplars stand like tall flamesagainst the background of the hills in the Chileanautumn, and the willows line the rivers with gold, allis soft and glowing; but beyond the northern limits ofvegetation where nothing meets the eye but masses oforange mountains that seem like glowing draperieshung against the unchanging blue sky, there is anextraordinary clarity of line and tint. When the sun descends, quick flushes of pink andyellow, sheets of pale green and violet, flood theburning desert and the deeply scored heights; thereis no movement, no sound, and yet the wide sceneappears instinct with life, to move beneath the wavesof pure light.

Text Appearing After Image: CHILE: TODAY AND TOMORROW 5 Every smallest thread of water is here edged with alush growth of bright emerald plants, every bush is amass of orange or purple flowers. And in the settledspots there is grace in every tree, a picturesque quahty ineach little thatched hut by the wayside, an insouciancethat lends charm to dobe walls and maize patches.The beauty and the kindliness of Chile are, in fact,apt to destroy ones critical faculties. The weather in Chile may be called extremely ob-vious. It is impossible to ignore it, as in some othercountries, despite the situation of the greater part ofChilean territory within the temperate zone. The re-markable topographical conditions of this strip forceeach barometrical change upon the attention. In the rainless north, modifications are chiefly con-fined to the effects of the curious sea-mist, the caman-chaca, spreading over some parts of the pampas to fiftymiles inland; appearing about six in the evening,these fogs screen the coast and promptly

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