. The earth and its inhabitants ... CHAPTER IX. HE southernmost republic of the Andean regions occupies on thePacific seaboard an elongated zone, extending a total distance of noless than 3,000 miles in a straight line, and comprising over one-half of the South American seaboard between the Gulf of Panamaand Cape Horn. Bat its breadth is far from corresponding tothis enormous expansion in the direction of the meridian. Before the recentannexations of Bolivian and Peruvian territories. Chili proper was everywherebounded inland by the crest of the Andes, which here especially run close
. The earth and its inhabitants ... CHAPTER IX. HE southernmost republic of the Andean regions occupies on thePacific seaboard an elongated zone, extending a total distance of noless than 3,000 miles in a straight line, and comprising over one-half of the South American seaboard between the Gulf of Panamaand Cape Horn. Bat its breadth is far from corresponding tothis enormous expansion in the direction of the meridian. Before the recentannexations of Bolivian and Peruvian territories. Chili proper was everywherebounded inland by the crest of the Andes, which here especially run close to thecoast. Towards the tapering extremity of the continent its domain is even stillreduced to a few uninhabited escarpments of the Cordilleras between the Pata-gonian plains and the archipelagoes fringing the seaboard. In the interior no state of this slender elongated form could possibly be heldtogether under any circumstances ; at the first shock it would necessarily breakinto fragments, each with its special centre of attraction. Even the Italianp
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