VOL. III, 1891, PL. 1. NAT. GEOG. MAG. 40 80 RUBA Sta. Marta ROQUES CURAÇAO ATRE ORCHILLA La Hachd N O R T H Α Τ Ι Α Ν Τ Ι Ο Prierto LOS Chirique Cabello La Guayra MARGARITA Cumgnd CARACAS Tolub Panama G.of Darien! Pad of S. Miguel Panama G.of Dulced 70 60 BE 50 BARBADOES (Brit.) WEST INDIA IS. CRENADA (Brit.) TOBAGO v.of Paria JTRINIDAD I(Brit.) Serpeuts Mouth Mouths of the Orinoco Angosturas GEORGETOWN (Demerara) New Amsterdam de R. Berbice MT.RORAIMA BRITISH R.Sharoni Kdiete er alls GUIANA DUTCH 4 Esmigalda GUIANA FRENCH Opakop GUIANA Sa Caledonia P.Mara R. Corentyn Nassau Santiago de Verdgia COIBA Cupica B. PARAMARIBOR R.2 Caura Sinnamary CAYENNE C. Corrientes C. Orange SIERPARIME Ft.Joaquino 88equabol ranco or Parima TO MARACA I. C.do Norte 2. Dos Papes or Maranon R. Negro Rio 1. LR. Caqueta or Yapura Para Bragança Gurupuri S. Thomas betas CHIMBORAZO Fatumayo Obidos Guayaquil Lentopamba Uatuna SR. Pas Codaya Maranhao Paranahyba Fortaleza R Amazon R.Tibre R. Xingu Ceara or ditapicaru Vavid R. Turyo Alkantara Amazon Icoary) ndpunny Maranhai R.Tapa) Aracati Campo S. Bernardo R.Piranhas a not Therezina R.Jurua R. Yavari Alegre Crattos Cratto R.Coary R.Purus Araguay arenanybar Parahyba Caxandt 8 R. R. Machado FR. Tocantins B Alagoas Pro. Calvo Alagoas Macayo Sergipe del Rey Penedo R R.Samaryt Ita picuru Ben Camisea STA. ANNA Arinos Mayu Natividad R. Guapore 7.8. Feliz Jaguaribe Mortes Yea RTS R.S. Miquel Puno • Mamore R.Araguay R.Ilheos IR. Urucuya Acari R.Belmonte Camando Islaye Titicaca? Mollendo Moqueguas Tacno P A C I F С C Chiquisaca Santo Ft. CENTRAL I B S.Juan de Nicaragua Miaca Thos Altagtocla 10 Maracaybo Guanare Calabozo o Honda · COCOS I. Cartago Buenaventure on Choco Bay Rio Negro o Caguan Mouth of the Amazon Macapa CAVIANA I. EQUATOR 8. Gabriel MARAJO OR Outeiro Barcellos JOANNES Hard of Belem CHARLES I. HOOD I. Assumpcion Ayrao roelras Cameta Rio Negro Santarent Y cosa ROCCAS PS a 8.doao das NORONHA duas Barras Portor Pt. Toird FERNANDO C.S.Roque P. S. Joao Natal orte Pt. Ahuja de Principle Rio Grande do Moyobambao Parahyba Deiras Osl Bom Jardin Goyanao Jolinda Pernambuco B'er n à mi-b ve on or Recife Madeira Santa Huniro 10 Guarmey Pitao Arcado Sergipe ма Estancia Jacobina Cazoeira ) R. Madre de Dios Bra a & Bahia or San Salvador Saints B. Cantas Carinhenha Olivenca Pilate Agoаquente Cuyaba Belmonte Goyaz or Villli Boa VPatåcadent Minis Nopas Seguro Porto Seguro Porteira Caravellas 78.Jose de Porto Alegre Diamantina Santiago o Valle Grande Min ais. Geroa ens Conceicao R Doce Sabdra Almeida 20 Nova Coimbra MARTIN VAS. 20 daicat Pirang, Victoria TRINIDAD Canapuzha C. St. Thome Sao Paulo Oran PARAGUAY RIO DE JANEIRO Pining ei Jujuy Para na 1 Miraflores R. Curitiba Va.Rica Sta. Neembucu Badruguay Catherina Santiago del Estero Candelaria Corri- Matara entes Iluasco 68. Borja Cartamasca Rio Grande d Sul 30 Coquimbo Porto Alegre R. Ivicuy caseros Santa Rosa L. Porongos SAXEMBURG dos Patos 96 Salto Orientah R. Choapa Parana URUGUAY 9 San Pedro А L. Merim S. Luisa Rosario Sandu S. Nicolas Campana Ft.S.Miguel Colònia BUENOS AXRES C.Sta. Maria Quinto Kletstok, nsenada BUENOS Azulo Dolores AYRES Colorado or Cobre Leuba Anegada B. C. Corrientes Ft.Argenting RICA 40 Valdivial KIT 40 R.Buenos PHIL. Nahuelhuapi Gulf of San Matias PENA.OF S.Josef OR VALDES TT.YANTELES R. Chrapat Camerones B. Port Melo G.of St. George c. Three Points British Miles 0 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Geographical Miles 50 MADRE DE DIOS FALKLAND ISLES (British) Railways shown thus 3 Port Louis E.FALKLAND Pia Str.of Magellan SOUTH GEORGIA (British) Ouro Preto Orariang 02 Porco 4. Chrisova? Chaco R.Anhens, Tarija Teinheyma Puraguay .S. Juan R. pilcoma'yo Paranapanema Parana Despoblad, 2 R.Ioah dacache C.Frió equarema SR-Parahyba RigiderJaneiro Marica Ede conception E. Piqueny L.GRANDE S.Paulo Santos 8. Sebastiao Antofagasta Iguape ASUNCION Vermejo Antonina S 98. Francisco DESTERRO OR Laguna Parana R:Salade Tagu Monte Tongoyol Ovale Reoraia Τ Ι Α Ν Τ Ι Ο Quillottu ma Ray-b Bevedere Durazno, L. Manguera Mercedes Cauqueneto E DESCABEZADO Salado R Bragado C.S. Antonio From the international Cyciopedia, by permission of Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers. Two years ago I selected for my annual address Africa, or the Dark Continent; last year Asia, the Land of Mountains and Deserts ; this year I have chosen South America, the Land of Rivers and Pampas. The recent meeting of the Pan-American Congress has called attention to South America, a part of our continent under republican forms of government and rich in products which we lack, while it relies mainly on other foreign countries for goods which we manufacture. North America and South America should be more closely united, for the one is the complement of the other. The prominent features of South America are its long ranges of mountains—next to the Himalayas the highest in the world, — its great valley, and its immense plateau extending from the Straits of Magellan to the Caribbean sea. THE MOUNTAINS. The Andes rise in the extreme south at Cape Horn, run in a northerly course through Patagonia and southern Chili ; thence continuing in three nearly parallel ranges, the western chain called the Andes, the others known as the Cordilleras, through Peru, 1-NAT. GEOG. MAG., VOL. III, 1891. (1) |
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