. The earth and its inhabitants ... before the end of the century, lies south of Aconcagua, but bears nospecial name, being simply called the Cumbre, or Summit. It, however,occasionally takes the name of the Argentine town of Uspallata, and is also some- PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF CHILI. 415 times called the Cumbre Tglesia, to distinguish it from another 500 feet higher,which lies farther south, and which couriers often follow in winter because fi-eefrom snow. According to Giissfeldt, the lowest and most frequented pass, wherethe railway tunnel is to be cut, stands at an elevation of 12,340 feet. A
. The earth and its inhabitants ... before the end of the century, lies south of Aconcagua, but bears nospecial name, being simply called the Cumbre, or Summit. It, however,occasionally takes the name of the Argentine town of Uspallata, and is also some- PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF CHILI. 415 times called the Cumbre Tglesia, to distinguish it from another 500 feet higher,which lies farther south, and which couriers often follow in winter because fi-eefrom snow. According to Giissfeldt, the lowest and most frequented pass, wherethe railway tunnel is to be cut, stands at an elevation of 12,340 feet. A numberof casuchas, or shelters, where the navvies keep their tools, and where thewayfarers take refuge from snowstorms, have been constructed at intervalsalong the rout-e, which is not diflBcult, rising in a series of terraces to the highestpoint. Above the border range between the Chilian slope and the Cuyo, the^Argentine Piedmont, rises Mount Juncal (a name common enough in Chilian Fig. 157.—Casucha del Poetillo, on the geographical nomenclature), which, although falling below 19,700 feet, is importantas the knot whence a lateral ridge ramiiies west and north-west to the ChacabucoPass (4,220 feet). Here is the northern limit of the great longitudinal plain ofOhili, where is situated Santiago, capital of the republic. South of Juncal follows snowy Tupungato, a mountain of volcanic origin20,286 feet high. At its southern base lies the Portillo de los Piuquenes Pass(13,780 feet), so named from the species of herbage clothing the flanks of theneighbouring hills and the shores of a lakelet on the Chilian slope. It also takes 416 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. the name of Portezuelo San José, from the extinct San Jose volcano (20,020 feet),,rising to the south, with an enormous breached crater facing west. In 1843 anearthquake overthrew one of the neighbouring heights, filling the valley with achaos of rocks for a space of over three leagues. Maipo (17,670 feet) see
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