3-017-277 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Railway Station, Arica, Peru, 1865. View from a sketch by Mr. J. N. Dutton '...of H.M.S. Shearwater, when lying in that harbour of the Pacific coast. [The view] includes the railway station and workshops of the line running to Tacua, a city about forty miles inland. The station is the first building on the right; the centre buildings, which stand on the other side of the line, are flour-mills; the workshop is the farthest building on the left; and the building which is seen at the back of the View is one which stands in the cemetery of Arica, on the Zapa plain. The Zapa valley is very pretty, the green bushes making an agreeable contrast with the sandy hills which surround them. The trees in the foreground are chiefly cotton. It is a very pleasant walk along the line with this rare verdure on each side. About a quarter of a mile to the left of the station is the Water Battery, a battery of three guns, one of which is a large 16-inch American gun, and the ether two 32-pounders. Altogether, the place is tolerably well fortified; and the fort on the hill commands the entire town, so that it would be difficult to land hostile troops without a considerable loss'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.