. A complete geography. Hue which winds aboutin its descent to the sea. In 1812 Caracas was visited by one of the most terrible earthquakesever recorded. Being Ascension Day, a great part of the population wasat church. The first shock caused the bell to toll, but after all dangerwas thought past, there came a terrible subterranean noise, resemblino-the rolhng of thunder, but louder and longer. Then came a shaking of theearth so tremendous that churches and houses were overthrown and themhabitants buried beneath their ruins. On that day fully twelve thousandpersons perished. People were told t
. A complete geography. Hue which winds aboutin its descent to the sea. In 1812 Caracas was visited by one of the most terrible earthquakesever recorded. Being Ascension Day, a great part of the population wasat church. The first shock caused the bell to toll, but after all dangerwas thought past, there came a terrible subterranean noise, resemblino-the rolhng of thunder, but louder and longer. Then came a shaking of theearth so tremendous that churches and houses were overthrown and themhabitants buried beneath their ruins. On that day fully twelve thousandpersons perished. People were told that it was sent as a punishment forrevoltmg from the rule of Spain. 324 south americaTropical Andean Countries Points of Resemblance.—These countries, Columbia, Ecuador,Peru, and Bolivia, are all crossed by the lofty Andes and are there-fore mountainous. Each of them extends eastward beyond themountains, to the plains of the upper Amazon and Orinoco Columbia these plains include a portion of the llanos. Why. Fig. houses in a clearing in the forest of Peru on the eastern side of the Andes. then are they treeless? (p. 291.) Elsewhere tlie plains are coveredwith a dense tropical forest (Figs. 323 and 355), resembling that ofthe Amazon in density of plant growth and in human can you tell about it then ? There is, of course, great variety of climate in this heat prevails throughout the lowlands (Fig. 344) ; but theheavy rainfall near the equator contrasts strikingly with the aridconditions of southern Peru and northern Chile, which lie in thebelt of southeast trades (p. 308). TROPICAL ANDEAN COUNTBIES 325 _ The elevation due to mountains and plateaus also causes differencesm climate. This may be illustrated by the vegetation. Up to an alti-tude of three thousand to four thousand feet, bananas, sugar-cane, cocoaand other plants of hot climates flourish. Above this, to an elevationo± six or seven thousand feet, the cooler cl
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