Note 19 — Chapter XVI · THE NEW OCEAN HIGHWAYS.

Many persons may have expected these countries to be much nearer New York. They do not realize that nearly all South America lies east of North America. Washington is on the same meridian as Callao on the coast of Peru. Antofagasta and Iquique, the chief nitrate ports of Chile, have the longitude of Boston. The eastern point of Brazil lies 2,600 miles east of New York, and is equidistant from New York Bay and the English Channel.