Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894
- Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.,
New York, 5 Bond Street
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
- GUAYAQUIL
A few small coast- streams follow southwards as far as the deep iulet
at the head of which debouches the copious Rio Guayas, which gives its
name to the port of Guayaquil. The Bubahoyo, its chief headstream,
rises in the Pacific coast range, and, after collecting numerous
tributaries on both sides, assumes the proportions of a considerable
river below the so-called bodegas, or " stores," at the landing-stages,
where travellers start for the ascent of the plateau. Even before its
junction with the Yaguachi or Chimbo, which collects the running waters
from the Chimbo heights, fed by the Chimborazo and Chauchan glaciers,
the Babahoyo is a large stream, 2,000 feet wide from bank to bank.
Lower down it is joined on its right side by the Rio Daule, which,
after emerging from an extensive forest region, winds through
alow-lying plain between pajonales ("savannas") and tembladerm
("quagmires"), expanding to a width of over half a mile as it enters
the Guayaquil estuary. This marine inlet, which is here called the Rio
Guayas, rapidly broadens out to a width of over a mile at the town of
Guayaquil, beyond which it ramifies through a small archipelago and
round the large island of Puna at the entrance of the gulf.
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