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[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Chile [[/left margin]]
In the distance [[strikethrough]] bare [[/strikethrough]] absolutely bare or snow-capped higher mountains. Rushing torrents of whitish water (glaciers?) irrigating the valley. cattle and horses and small farms. abundance of fruit. [[red underline]] peaches and grapes [[/red underline]] growing profusely [[red underline]] everywhere [[/red underline]]. A winding narrow sandy but good road, for burros or horses, follows the streams on the ^[[bank]] opposite of the R.R. sometimes the dry part of the stream bed widens considerably and allow zig-zag windings of the narrow road strip I believe this [[red underline]] road entirely good enough for a small  automobile but saw none [[/red underline]]
At [[red underline]] Rio-Blanco [[/red underline]] station there is a summer-hotel
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[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Argentina [[/left margin]]
situated in the valley which makes a fair impression and which might make a center for camping, or fishing. or horse back riding. The [[red underline]] ugly corrugated roof over [[/red underline]] the [[strikethrough]] shab [[/strikethrough]] small huts makes their shabbiness still more apparent. At [[red underline]] 4000 feet [[/red underline]] mountains are entirely bare except for some patchy shrubs At 12:30 enter the tunnel thru peak of [[red underline]] Andes [[/red underline]] at 10450 feet. altitude. Takes about ten minutes to get thru. Now we are in [[red underline]] Argentina.[[/red underline]] Stream rushes the opposite side in same direction as train. Water instead of being grayish white now is reddish. Slopes of mountains are smoother and seem less rocky and more sandy. A scant greenish growth of some weed gives