Note 377 — Chapter XIX
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Smyth, p. 115; who says that, according to a register which had been kept there, it rains at Casapi on more than half the days of the year.
"From May to November the sun shines very powerfully in the valley of Chinchao, and consequently the soil, when it is cleared of wood, becomes so parched that its surface opens in chinks, but underneath it always preserves humidity, and therefore needs no irrigation. From November to May it rains much, sometimes six or seven days without intermission."—Dr. A. Smith's Peru as It Is, ii. p. 57.