. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . :—Ranunculus Peruvianus, Pers., north side (13,000-14,000) ; R. prtemorms,Kth., near second camp, etc. (15,500-16,500). Humboldt says in the pamphlet entitled Notice de deux lentatives dascensiondu Chimborazo, dated Berlin, Sept. 1836 (pub. at Paris in 1838), Les derniersvegetaux cryptogames que je recueillis furent le lecidea atrovirens {lichen geographi-cus, Web.) et une nouvelle espece de gyrophora dAcharius {gyrophora rugosa), apeu pres a 2820 toises daltitude. La derniere mousse, le grimmia longirostrUcroissait a 400 toises plus has. Reck
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . :—Ranunculus Peruvianus, Pers., north side (13,000-14,000) ; R. prtemorms,Kth., near second camp, etc. (15,500-16,500). Humboldt says in the pamphlet entitled Notice de deux lentatives dascensiondu Chimborazo, dated Berlin, Sept. 1836 (pub. at Paris in 1838), Les derniersvegetaux cryptogames que je recueillis furent le lecidea atrovirens {lichen geographi-cus, Web.) et une nouvelle espece de gyrophora dAcharius {gyrophora rugosa), apeu pres a 2820 toises daltitude. La derniere mousse, le grimmia longirostrUcroissait a 400 toises plus has. Reckoning the toise at 6*3945 English feet, itappears that his highest Lichens came from 18,032, and the Moss from 15,475 feet. For the Zoological results, the reader is referred to the Supplementary last thing obtained on Chimborazo (near Tortorillas) was the Hylodes with whichmy name is associated. This was another of the species that recurred at similaraltitudes. It had previously been captured upon Pichincha, Cotocachi, and A PHASMA FROM LA DORMIDA, CAYAMBE. CHAPTER XIX. UPON SOME RESULTS OF THE JOURNEY. Ix a very short time it was found that there were things to beunlearned as well as discovered in Ecuador. It had been supposedthat the slopes of Chimborazo led continuously, without a break,down to the flat land bordering the shores of the Pacific [see p. 12].I saw that this was not the case, and that an important rangeof mountains intervened between it and the Ocean. Kext weascertained that Chimborazo streamed with glaciers, although highauthorities state that it has none ; and in course of time it becameapparent that the two parallel Cordilleras, which according togeographers are the great feature of the country, do not exist. The axis of the Andes of Ecuador, part of the backbone ofSouth America, runs nearly north and south ; and towards thewestern edge of the main chain there is a certain sequence of peaksmore or less in a line with each On th
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