. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . nd11 ) is 19,18G feet, and this mountain is therefore the fourthin rank of the Great Andes of the Of the other twosummits the northern one is the higher, and it is well-nighinaccessible, being almost surrounded by gigantic crevasses, andsurmounted by tufted cornices. The central or true summit pre-sented fewer difficulties, though it was not altogether easy ofaccess. It was a stroke of good fortune to find a snow-bridgeacross the highest crevasse, just under the place where there wasa break in the coronal cornice. Glacier departs
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . nd11 ) is 19,18G feet, and this mountain is therefore the fourthin rank of the Great Andes of the Of the other twosummits the northern one is the higher, and it is well-nighinaccessible, being almost surrounded by gigantic crevasses, andsurmounted by tufted cornices. The central or true summit pre-sented fewer difficulties, though it was not altogether easy ofaccess. It was a stroke of good fortune to find a snow-bridgeacross the highest crevasse, just under the place where there wasa break in the coronal cornice. Glacier departs in all directions from the summit of Cayambe 1 The mean of these two readings (reduced to 32° Faht.) was 14983 11 reading at Guayaquil (red. to 32° F.) was 29-915 inches, air tempera-ture 79° Faht. At some future date it may perhaps appear that Cayambe isthird, and that Antisana is the fourth in rank. There is, I imagine, a very slightdifference in the elevation of these two mountains. CHAP. xii. OS THE SIMM IT OF CAYAMBK. 233.
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