. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . MACHACHI AND CORAZON. and after rising gently and then abruptly lead one to easy grassland, which continues uninterruptedly to the foot of a cliffabout 800 feet high, that is found at the top of the trouble, one might ride, upon the eastern side, to withina thousand feet of the summit. On some days the mountainwas nlmost covered with snow down to L4,500 feet, and on othersno snow whatever was seen on any part of it. 1 Local guidance is useful over the lower slopes, as they contain lar£?e earth-quake fissures (quebradas) which are
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . MACHACHI AND CORAZON. and after rising gently and then abruptly lead one to easy grassland, which continues uninterruptedly to the foot of a cliffabout 800 feet high, that is found at the top of the trouble, one might ride, upon the eastern side, to withina thousand feet of the summit. On some days the mountainwas nlmost covered with snow down to L4,500 feet, and on othersno snow whatever was seen on any part of it. 1 Local guidance is useful over the lower slopes, as they contain lar£?e earth-quake fissures (quebradas) which are occasionally quite impassable. chap. v. ASCENT OF CORAZON. 109 Lorenzo led us to a place a long way to the south of thesummit, and then evidently came to the end of his his ascent he had gone as far as one can go with the handsin the pockets, and had stopped when it was necessary to takethem We continued in the same direction to see whatthe western side was like, and presently put on the rope. Ourguide was the first to be tie
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