. The earth and its inhabitants ... toReisss measurement. Illiniza, with its twin ice-capped peaks, is nearly alwayswrapped in mist, so that a clearvista is seldom obtained. Whym-per, who passed seventy-eightdays in the neighbourhood,never got more than a partialview, or a short glimpse of thesummit. He tried to clamberto the top, on all fours, so tosay, but had to give up theattempt, being intercepted byhuge séirœs* some of whichshowed clean walls of ice, appa-rently 200 feet high, lurchingforward as if ready to fall, andseparated by crevasses from 20to 25 feet across. Farther south rises Qui
. The earth and its inhabitants ... toReisss measurement. Illiniza, with its twin ice-capped peaks, is nearly alwayswrapped in mist, so that a clearvista is seldom obtained. Whym-per, who passed seventy-eightdays in the neighbourhood,never got more than a partialview, or a short glimpse of thesummit. He tried to clamberto the top, on all fours, so tosay, but had to give up theattempt, being intercepted byhuge séirœs* some of whichshowed clean walls of ice, appa-rently 200 feet high, lurchingforward as if ready to fall, andseparated by crevasses from 20to 25 feet across. Farther south rises Quilotoa,whose crater is flooded by atarn at a temperature of 61°Fahr. or 14° above the surround-ing atmosphere. According toVelasco, an eruption of lavasoccurred in 1725, when flameswere seen to shoot up from themiddle of the lake. Beyond Quilotoa follow other less elevated cones, bristling on the slopes ofbroad paramos, whence branches off south-westwards a third cordillera, withpeaks scarcely lower than those of the main 78 V/est or ureenwich 62 Miles. * Séracs Rre the solid cubical blocks into which glaciers are sometimes broken, owing to steepgradients or other cmties. The fragments are often separated by very large crevasses, rendering theascent extremely difficult, if not altogether impossible.—Ed. 232 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. The Ecuadorean Coast Ranges. The pass followed by the road from Guayaquil to Chimborazo attains a heightof 10,420 feet where it crosses this Pacific Range of Ecuador, as Whympercalls it, that is, Wolfs Cordillera of Chirabo. In its culminating peak,Purain, this range reaches an altitude of 11,500 feet; but farther on the crestfalls rapidly, terminating in the steep cliff on the banks of the Rio Chimbo, whichreaches the coast at Guayaquil Bay. East of tbe Rio Daule, which joins the Chimbo in the Guayaquil estuary,a few small coast ranges and groups attain altitudes of 1,000 or 2,000 so-called Cordillera de Colonche, hi
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