. The earth and its inhabitants ... arpments being the continuation of thecoast range with steep hills 2,000 and even 2,300 feet high. But the culminatingpoint is reached by a peak 3,200 feet high at the southern extremity of the island. PHYSICAL FEATURES OF CHILI. 423 The ground slopes gradually eastwards, that is, towards the southern prolonga-tion of the longitudinal depression of Chili, and the gulf is studded with islandsand islets, like tlie hills scattered over the plains round about Valparaiso. Asmany as 120 of these islands have been counted in the Chiloe Archipelago. Butfar more nume
. The earth and its inhabitants ... arpments being the continuation of thecoast range with steep hills 2,000 and even 2,300 feet high. But the culminatingpoint is reached by a peak 3,200 feet high at the southern extremity of the island. PHYSICAL FEATURES OF CHILI. 423 The ground slopes gradually eastwards, that is, towards the southern prolonga-tion of the longitudinal depression of Chili, and the gulf is studded with islandsand islets, like tlie hills scattered over the plains round about Valparaiso. Asmany as 120 of these islands have been counted in the Chiloe Archipelago. Butfar more numerous are those of the more southerly Chonos Archipelago, whichis sub-divided into secondary groups by a labyrinth of straits and channels. Onthe marine charts are figured over a thousand distinct islands of all sizes. But ageneral survey of all these separate masses shows that, together with the Taytao Fig. 161.—San Eafael Lake. Scale 1 : 800,000. 46^t^^^^^,j^. -^^ ^^^/^00ff^%m^^j§ 46- \ ^\ * 0- ■i%t^ m^ --^ ^ fm^Mà:^m mmmmfy. 7420 WesL or ureenwich 7T50- 12 Miles. Peninsula projecting from the mainland farther south, they form a vast penin-sular region broken into fragments and separated from the Patagonian seaboardby the Moraleda Channel. Viewed from north to south it presents the aspect ofa ruined embankment about 220 miles long and some 60 miles broad at its the isthmus connecting Taytao with the mainland consists of two narrowalluvial strips enclosing the circular lacustrine depression of Lake San culminates in the Cerro Encinas, 4,000 feet high. Lake San Rafael presents one of the most remarkable spectacles on the Chiliaii 424 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. seaboard. A glacier descending from the spurs of the neighbouring Mount SanValentin penetrates far into the interior of the lacustrine basin, its sparklingsurface offering a striking contrast to the dark cliffs of the rocky gorge throughwhich it falls a height of over 300 feet down to t
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