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Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
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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, museums, some fifty convents, mostly dilapi-dated. Several of these contain some fine paintings, for Ecuador boasts of havingcreated the Quito School with over a dozen painters constantly engaged inreproducing the images of the saints for the local demand and for the exporttrade. As there is no school of design, nearly all the artists begin as simplepupils with their father or some patron, and several acquire a remarkable dexterityin handling the brush. The observatory, which recent studies place some 18 miles east of the positionindicated by Humboldt,* stands in the middle of a garden at the north-east * Longitude of the Quito Observatory according to Humboldt : 81° 4 38 E. of Paris; according toStubel: 80° 4754. ™™\nwm»>\y™MVW\«W> (
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TOPOGEAPIirY OF ECUADOR. 251 extremity of the city. Here is seen the famous stone on \vliich La Condamine andhis associates commemorated, by an inscription, their operations connected withthe measurement of an arc of the terrestrial meridian. But the base line whichthey had traced with so much care north-east of the city, and which enabled themto measure three degrees of the meridian between Ibarra and Cuenca, can no longerbe identified. Either through some narrow patriotic feeling of jealousy or throughbarbarous ignorance, the Government ordered the two terminal pyramids to berazed which La Condamine had erected, one near the town of Pifo, between Coto-paxi and Cayambe, the other on the edge of the Guallabamba gorge. The first,that of Oyambaro, has been reconstructed since the War of Independence, butnot on the old site and only as a commemorative monument ; the second (Caraburo) Fig. 97.—Quito and its Envieons.Scale 1: 760,000. ■^ 73?T^~-irT»^>j,/^gg^g%»- ■ i,^- -^J^P.*;^

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