The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... nearly parallel ranges , the western chain called the Andes , the others known as the Cordilleras , through Peru , 1 - NAT . GEOG . MAG . , VOI .. III , 1891 . ( 1 ) Bolivia and Ecuador to Colombia . The Cordilleras and the HUBBARD.
... nearly parallel ranges , the western chain called the Andes , the others known as the Cordilleras , through Peru , 1 - NAT . GEOG . MAG . , VOI .. III , 1891 . ( 1 ) Bolivia and Ecuador to Colombia . The Cordilleras and the HUBBARD.
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... nearly as precipitous as that ex- tending to the Pacific . Craters of extinct volcanoes and volcanoes now in eruption are found in all parts of the chain . In Ecuador there are fifty - two volcanoes , and twenty of these , covered with ...
... nearly as precipitous as that ex- tending to the Pacific . Craters of extinct volcanoes and volcanoes now in eruption are found in all parts of the chain . In Ecuador there are fifty - two volcanoes , and twenty of these , covered with ...
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... nearly six months , raising its waters from 30 to 50 feet . The channels are filled , and the flood - plains are overflowed . The whole valley becomes a net - work of navigable waters , with islands and channels and lakes innumerable ...
... nearly six months , raising its waters from 30 to 50 feet . The channels are filled , and the flood - plains are overflowed . The whole valley becomes a net - work of navigable waters , with islands and channels and lakes innumerable ...
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... nearly a straight course , when the stronger and mightier oceanic current deflects it to the north . At from 200 to 300 miles from land , the sea is strongly tinged , and in April and May has nearly the clay- yellow hue of the Amazon ...
... nearly a straight course , when the stronger and mightier oceanic current deflects it to the north . At from 200 to 300 miles from land , the sea is strongly tinged , and in April and May has nearly the clay- yellow hue of the Amazon ...
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... nearly 15,000 feet , to the plateau between the Andes and the Cordilleras . It is expected that this road will be extended to the navigable waters of the Amazon . Three hundred miles southward , the second road runs from Molendo , Peru ...
... nearly 15,000 feet , to the plateau between the Andes and the Cordilleras . It is expected that this road will be extended to the navigable waters of the Amazon . Three hundred miles southward , the second road runs from Molendo , Peru ...
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