Show south band mounds I 1 youtha companion most readers are familiar with the drifting of snow on a level and smooth surface its for example on a frozen pond or river so in e I 1 I 1 ow in the progress of he storm a little lit I 1 y is i f 0 and front this the drift keeps on growing simi barly on the desert plains of south A ic a the fiand ge in m zar u d a by the wind these in 0 undo which are called medinas by the peruvians seemed to be over the desert at the ilia lance of fifty or sixty a ads from one another t appeared to be from about eight or ten to twenty or more feet nuil they were from twenty to fifty yards in circum ference their sides to windward were al roost perpendicular and nearly semi i to leeward th ey declined very gradually gra duall y from the summit of the monad to the extremity on this side and on the other two aides tile ridges declined in height from the until they reached the but it is most re mariable that these medinas are ili slow motion by the force of the wind while it blows the sand from the side continually rises like vapor from tile bottom to die top ing the a 1 it unites with the laward slope and advances that side in p 1 util ilon as the other ie th wadle moves slowly on ili the same erection till tile ahn ages bi until the meda is last in some ravine or against f some solid bl alj that lies id its w il I 1 is that apar delightful 11 ed chair worth 09 inquired it is aoah m damar said the honest dellitt de alitt abst abo h ahe price I 1 89 7 Harl mrs bazar I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 I 1 it 11 I 1 w I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 V I 1 I 1 |