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extending from it to the shore. Between the two is a bay, but
scarcely affording anchorage. The coast line is partly a rocky and
partly a sandy beach; in-shore are hills about foui'teen hundred
feet in height, inclining gradually toward the coast. ^ ^
N. 41° W., twenty miles from Asia Island, is CHILCA POINT ; it is
about three hundred feet in its highest part, has several rises on it,
and terminates in a steep cUff, with a smaH flat rock close off it.
The valley of Chilca lies a league to the southward of the point,
and the harbour of the same name half a league to the northward.
This is a snug cove, but very confined ; anchorage is good m any part
of it, and landing tolerable ; there is a small village at the head of
the bay, but no information could be obtained from the inhabitants
about Chflca, for they deserted their huts on our amval.
From Chilca the coast forms a bend to about the Valley of Lienn,
off which are the PACHACAMAC ISLANDS. The northern is the
laro-ert, half a mile in length, ajad about a cable's length broad; the
next but one to it is the most remarkable, being quite Hke a sugarloaf
perfectly rounded at the top : the others are mere rocks, and
not visible at any distance. At the northern end of these islands
lies a small reef, even with the water's edge : the group run nearly
parallel to the coast, in a N.W. and S.E.. direction, and are about a
league in extent. There is no danger on their outer side, but
towards the shore the water is shoal, which causes a long sweU, that
at times must break. Between these islands and the Morro Solar is
a sandy beach, with moderately high land a short distance from
the sea. The Morro Solar is a remarkable cluster of hills, situated
on a sandy plain ; when seen from the southward it has the appearance
of an island in the shape of a quoin, sloping to the westward,
and falling abruptly on its in-shore side; facing the sea it terminates
in a steep cliff, and has a sandy bay on each side of it.
Off the point of the southern sand bay is an islet with some
rocks lying about it, and off the point of the northern sand bay is
a reef of rocks of about a cable's length ; round this reef, on the
north side of the Morro, is the town and road of ChoriUos. The
town of Choi-iUos, built on the cUff. at the foot of one of the
«lopes of the Mon-o Solar, is used chiefly as a bathing-place for the
inhabitants of Lima, and during a revolution its road is filled with
the shipping from Callao ; though it is an exceedingly bad place for
-them • the bottom is a hard sand, with patches of hard stony clay
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together, c^led tosca; . d « - U
the point causing ^dmost a f .-hich makes
and throws her back agam with a sudden jerk.
her di-ag, or endangers snapping the cable.
Vessels having to a n c h o r here ought not to shut me .o j mmmmmmrsn ^ „t-rpt-chinff out toward the Island ot ban
L S i t ^ r " ¿tensive and commodious Bay of
Island of SANLOKEN.O, which is 1050 feet at its highest
t ^ n d ™ : ; : « , " ^he S.W. are the P —
end, or Cape San Lorenzo, is clear, and rouri it is th
usual passage to the anchorage at Callao. ly^^if-S ^ ^ ^^^^^^
not close the land nearer t h ^ half a mile, for ^ t l u n tbat ^ c e
there are light baffing airs caused by the eddy w.nd round ^ e i W ^
by getting among which you would be more delayed than if you
t l v e L Island a^ood berth, and should have to make an additional
i t w " « thereis another which, with common
nrceaution may be used to great advantage, by vessels commg
C t s — . This is the Boqueron. formed by the Is a n d ^
San Lorenzo and Callao Point. After
Fronton, steer so as to keep the south extreme of the
point open on the bow port; and keep on this ™ ^
Cistle is seen, which has two martello towers on it, and is situated
I t Ler part of the shingle spit, that forms the point: tiiens^er
for it till Horadada Island (with a hole through it) comes on with
L middle of the southern sandy bay of the Mo„o Solar,^ and ^ ^
the inner decUvity of the hiU on Solar Point beanng S. 66 B. . with
these marks on, and steering N. 66» W. . for the forthest pomt of
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