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Identifier: mountainadventur00head (find matches)
Title: Mountain adventures in various parts of the world
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, are the sole riches of these Spanishrepublics. The most flourishing of these districtsis that of Angangeo, situated on the confines of theState of Mexico. I quitted this locality on the 6thof August, 1855, and directed myself to the westtowards the village of Taximaroa. I had receivedsome vague intimation of the existence in thisregion of a great mountain bearing the name of SanAndres, but I had some trouble in finding a guidewho should conduct me to it. All the volcanoes of Mexico are easy of access.The slope of their sides is so gentle that one canascend on horseback to a considerable height; butthey are always covered with forests which hide thehorizon and the summit of the mountain. Every-where the visual ray is arrested by the trunks ofvenerable trees which seem to dispute the ground,Or which lie heaped together in masses of rotten-ness, where all living nature seems to retire intoshade from the eye of the passer-by. This vigorousand gigantic vegetation, the fruit of a tropical
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THE SAN ANDHES, MEXICO. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT VOLCANO. . 305 climate, and remarkably fertile soil, excites for alength of time j)he imagination of the traveller; butall this ends at last in fatigue, and its monotony fillsthe soul with ennui and sadness. Here, however,the uniformity is broken by great openings among thetrees; and the horizontal ground appears to me tohave belonged to a series of dried-up lakes. Themountain of San Andres is, in fact, very distinct. Itssides are not uniformly inclined; but they are cut upinto plains, mounds, and hills, on the mountain itself.This vast whole presents a mass of domes and ofcrests, separated by plains and valleys ; and it risesgradually by stages to the last plateau, on the levelof which surges up the rounded rock which formsthe highest point. The straight path which conducts from thevillage of Jaripea to the place of the sulphurworks, sometimes crosses the marshes of the plains,sometimes goes down into ravines, in which oursteps were att

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  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Mountaineering
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Scribner__Armstrong__and_co_
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