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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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otal height of about 6,500 feet rises in a superb cone above theelevated pediment of the surrounding uplands. A broad snowfield, intersected bycrevasses, is developed round the western and north-western slopes, but presents nogreat obstacle to the climber, nor would the higher and almost snowless escarp-ments be difficult to scale, but for the rarefied atmosphere and sudden snowstorms.In 1885, Giissfeldt first attempted the ascent, but could get no farther than 21,540feet, or 1,340 below the summit. Aconcagua is often wrongly described by the Chilians as a volcano; it consistsof porphyritic rocks without any traces of crater, lavas or scoriae. It is separatedfrom Ramada by a breach famous in the history of Chili, the Boquete de ValleHermoso (11,700), called also De los Patos, from the Argentine river of that PHYSICAL FEATURES OF CHILI. 413 name (Duck Eiver), towards which the Valle Hermoso (Fair Vale.) isinclined. Few travellers venture to cross from one slope to the other by this n 3
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difficult pass; nevertheless in 1817, General San Martin surmounted it with hiswhole army to outflank the Spanish forces, which were expecting him farther southat the Cumbre Pass. Thanks to this movement the Republican troops were able to 414 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. give battle on a field chosen by themselves, and thus gained the first great victoryover the Rovalists which brought about the independence of Chili. The pass which is followed by nearly all travellers, and which is to be crossed Fig. Ifl6. — ACOXCAOUA AND IjA CuiCBRE.Scale 1 : 450,000.

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