CHAP. VI. 



EQUABILITY OF THE WEATHER. 



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At Machachi we met Sen or Lopez, an engineer of the Ecuadorian 

 railway, who said that this weather was in no way exceptional, 

 and would be found alike over all the higher ground, in any 

 month. We resigned ourselves to the inevitable, and set to work 

 perfecting preparations for a journey to Cotopaxi. 



AN ACADEMICIAN OBSERVING THE BAROMETER. 

 (after JUAN AND ULLOA.) 



