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Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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river water is turned into canalsand ditches to irrigate the grainfields and vineyards.Valparaiso is the chief port in Chile. Below the snow line the west slope of the southern Andesis heavily wooded. Among the trees are pine and oak. The mountain pass shown in the picture below is not far fromthe volcanic cone of Aconcagua. This pass is two miles anda half above sea level, — higher than many clouds. In some parts,long slopes of coarse rock waste rise on either side, and there isneither water nor fuel. Years ago the journey across this highland was made on mulesor on horses. A railroad now crosses the Chilian Andes. There are many volcanoes in this region, and earthquakes are frequent. -- 46. The Middle Andes. The plateau of Bolivia lies in the widest part of theAndes. It is the highestplateau in America and isshut in both on the east andthe west by lofty ranges.The plateau of Bolivia aver-ages about 12,000 feet inheight. It is three timesas high as the Great Basinin North America.
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A BOLIVIAN On the plateau of Bolivia there is a large sheet of water,known as lake Titicaca. This lake has an outlet which carriesa small portion of the water southward, but much of the water THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN ANDES. NS > 57 evaporates and the lake is therefore slightly brackish. The outletdoes not reach the sea but flows into a salt swamp. Lake Titicaca is in the northern part of a region having nodrainage to the sea. This region extends southward into Patagonia. Titicaca is the largest lake in South America and is the loftiestlarge body of water in the New World. It is only surpassed in height Much of the bark is stripped from trees. Some of it is alsotaken from slender shoots that spring up from the roots of treeswhich have been cut down. The descendants of the Incas gatherlarge quantities of the bark. For more than a thousand miles along the west slopeof the middle Andes, there is a regionknown as the rainless coast. The desertof Atacama, at thesouthern end of therainless

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