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Plate XXIV 



RELIEF MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



From Frye's Complete Geography, by permission of Ginn & Co., Publishers. 

 Illustrating the New Theory that the Mountains were formed by the oceans, and 

 thus run parallel to the Sea Coast, as in the typical case of the Andes. It was this 

 vast wall along the Western sea-board of South America and the earthquakes afflict- 

 ing that region that led to the discovery of the cause of Earthquakes and Mountain 

 Formation in 1906. The foundations of the New Science of Geogony were thus 

 laid by the writer, soon after the great earthquakes which devastated San Fran- 

 cisco and Valparaiso. 



