Verrugas, a streamlet in a rocky ravine amongst the lofty mountains over and through which runs the Central Railway of Peru (see PERU, Vol. VIII. p. 79). Over a rocky ravine stood a bridge of three iron piers (the central one 252 feet high), which, built in 1873, was swept away by a flood in 1889. Its successor, finished in 1891, has but two piers, and the lofty central span is 585 feet long.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 463
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