The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... elevation at the Panama canal , and continue thence , through Central America and North America as the Rocky Mountains , to the Arctic ocean . Near the source of the Magda- lena and Cauca rivers in Colombia , the eastern range is ...
... elevation at the Panama canal , and continue thence , through Central America and North America as the Rocky Mountains , to the Arctic ocean . Near the source of the Magda- lena and Cauca rivers in Colombia , the eastern range is ...
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... elevation , the trees are always green , and while one kind sheds its blossoms and ripens its fruit another is budding and unfolding its bloom . Meantime , on the top of the mountains is eternal winter . In some places , as at Potosi ...
... elevation , the trees are always green , and while one kind sheds its blossoms and ripens its fruit another is budding and unfolding its bloom . Meantime , on the top of the mountains is eternal winter . In some places , as at Potosi ...
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... elevation than any others , and to a height which in Europe or the United States , would be above the snow level . They were intended to reach the gold and silver mines between the Andes and Cordilleras . The first , called the Oroya or ...
... elevation than any others , and to a height which in Europe or the United States , would be above the snow level . They were intended to reach the gold and silver mines between the Andes and Cordilleras . The first , called the Oroya or ...
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... elevation of 7,000 feet to the sea - coast . Seven or eight hundred miles south of Mollendo , a line runs from Valparaiso in Chili to Buenos Ayres , 870 miles . It crosses the Andes through a tunnel two miles long , at an elevation of ...
... elevation of 7,000 feet to the sea - coast . Seven or eight hundred miles south of Mollendo , a line runs from Valparaiso in Chili to Buenos Ayres , 870 miles . It crosses the Andes through a tunnel two miles long , at an elevation of ...
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... elevation , 19,500 feet . The difficulties attending the determination of the height of this mountain are so great that the range between the extreme elevations that have been given by different explorers is nearly 6,000 feet . This is ...
... elevation , 19,500 feet . The difficulties attending the determination of the height of this mountain are so great that the range between the extreme elevations that have been given by different explorers is nearly 6,000 feet . This is ...
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