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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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south-west parallelwith the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. The large island of Albemarle consists of volcanic ridges belonging to bothsystems, the larger section rising parallel with Central America at right angleswith the two smaller chains in the extreme north and south. A general upheavalof the archipelago would give a length of 300 miles to an elongated island trendingsouth-east and north-west from Hood to Culpeper. All volcanic life has ceased everywhere, except in the two western islands of 268 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. Albemarle and Narborough. In 1735 Admiral Byron saw flames shooting up froma cone in Albemarle, and in 1814 and 1825 other English observers witnessederuptions in Narborough, where the volcanoes reach the greatest height, andwhere the red lavas best preserve the appearance of molten metal. All thesummits, which vary in altitude from 1,600 to 3,-300 and even 3,700 feet, had rig. 104.—Volcanic Geoup of ALBEitAELE Island.Scale 1 : 1,2(X),000.
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9r40 West or Greenwich IS Miles. terminal craters, some obliterated, some still open and pierced with vents, fromwhich were formerly ejected lavas or vapours. Besides these terminal vents, nume-rous openings occur on the lateral cones and even at the foot of the mountains.In the whole archipelago the still plainly visible craters are estimated at overtwo thousand. THE GALAPAGOS AECHIPELAGO. 269 Climate. Althougli traversed by the equator, the Galapagos lie entirely within theclimatic zone of the southern hemisphere, for the south-east wind prevails regu-larly, bearing its rains and its vapours to the upper slopes of the volcanoes. Thearchipelago is also exposed to the influence of the southern marine currents.After passing Cape Blanca, Humboldts stream would seem to ramify into twobranches, one of which continues its northerly course, while the other sets north-west and west in the direction of the Galapagos. In these latitudes both currentshave a normal temperature of about 73° Fahr

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