This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... the depths of the interior produce remarkable and con trasting forms in conical mountains: such as the cleavago into double pyramids of a more or less regular kind in the Carguairazo (15,667 feet), which suddenly fell in4 on the night of the 19th July, 1698, and in the still more beautiful pyramids* ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... the depths of the interior produce remarkable and con trasting forms in conical mountains: such as the cleavago into double pyramids of a more or less regular kind in the Carguairazo (15,667 feet), which suddenly fell in4 on the night of the 19th July, 1698, and in the still more beautiful pyramids* of Iliuissa (17,438 feet); and a crenulation of tho upper walls of the crater, in which two very similar peaks, opposite to each other, betray the previous primitive form (Capac-Urcu, Cerro del Altar, now only 17,456 feet in height). Amongst the aborigines of the highlands of Quito, between Chambo and Licau, between the mountains of Condorasto and Cuvillan, the tradition has been universally preserved that fourteen years before the invasion of Huayna Capac, the son of the Inca Tupac Yupanqui, and after eruptions which lasted uninterruptedly for seven or eight years, the summit of the last-mentioned volcano fell in, and covered the entire plateau, in which New Riobamba is situated, with pumice-stone and volcanic ashes. The volcano, originally higher than Chimborazo, was called in the Inca or Quichua language, capac, the king or prince of mountains (urcu), because the natives saw its summit rise to a greater height above tho lower snow line, than that of any other mountain of the neighbourhood.* The great Ararat, the summit 4 Umriste von Vvlkanen, Tafel iv. 6 Ibid. Tafel iii, and vii. 6 Long before the visit of Bouguer and La Condamine (1736) to the plateau of Quito, long before any measurements of the mountains by astronomers, the natives knew that Chimborazo was higher than any other Nevado in that region. They had detected two lines of level which remained almost exactly the same all the year round, --that of the lower limit of...
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