Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1920 — PERU'S DRIFTING SAND DUNES [ARTICLE]

PERU'S DRIFTING SAND DUNES

Plateau Shelf Hue Oliann# Creecentlenao, Peru, .tfcn. Ib*e. ot the SoqthHA railway, the cllmb to the divide Is broken by two great step*, orskldespreading shelves of desert or pampa. 0»" «h* fl«t' Of these step*, about twd4oi*rY Steep ettwb from the sea, and at an altitude of from four thousantf s tfr ! fivfr'tlWuSandteet, are located miles wlda..tba alr thin and dW «nd no trace of vegetation to be seen, only these gfgwttc .crescent-shaped sand dunes dottlnr the as far as thegHtaßM. Composed of Sue #ray crystal sand, they gleam white against the brown of the desert.--and 8 their home point toward .the prevailing sooth wind of They are fW>tb fifteen to twenty feet ‘ln breadth across the thick part of the oetfufcptjHid sometimes one hundred.-faet-from horn to horme&> &&&£ ** <&* sand packed that thp /eet horse*. or nmles make little Unpretffton on It.