The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . fresher. Vegetation in general is more people make less of wool than of cattle, horses, and pueblo is famous for its horses, wiry, long-haired lit-tle beasts, as hardy as Shetland ponies. We found cattle grazingonly five hundred feet below the limit of perpetual snow. Thereare cultivated spots only a little farther down, and only a thou-sand feet below the snow are abandoned terraces. At the sameelevation are twisted quenigo trees, at least two hundred yearsold, as shown by
The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . fresher. Vegetation in general is more people make less of wool than of cattle, horses, and pueblo is famous for its horses, wiry, long-haired lit-tle beasts, as hardy as Shetland ponies. We found cattle grazingonly five hundred feet below the limit of perpetual snow. Thereare cultivated spots only a little farther down, and only a thou-sand feet below the snow are abandoned terraces. At the sameelevation are twisted quenigo trees, at least two hundred yearsold, as shown by their rings of growth. Thus the limits of agricul-ture are higher on the east; likewise the limits of cattle grazingthat naturally goes with agriculture. Sheep would thrive, butllamas do better in drier country, and the shepherd must needsmix his flocks, for the wool which is his chief product requirestransportation and only the cheap and acclimated llama is at theshepherds disposal. From these facts it will be seen that theanthropo-geographic contrasts between the eastern and western. Fig. 37.
Size: 2062px × 1212px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectgeology
