CHAP. IX. 



THE PANECILLO OF QUITO. 



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The best near view of the city is obtained from the top of a 

 regularly formed Panecillo, which is just within the range of the 

 Plan/ and from the same spot there is an admirable panorama of 

 the Great Andes in the immediate neighbourhood of the Equator. 

 Looking north, first comes Ootocachi (16,301), a rather sharp peak^ 



THE OLD WATER-CARRIER. 



of pyramidal form, referred to in a later chapter ; next, turning 

 eastwards, there is Mojanda (14,083 R. & S.), which perhaps covers 

 a greater space than any other mountain in Ecuador ; then Cay- 

 ambe (19,186), a grand, snow-clad extinct volcano lying just north 



' The Panecillo is a recognized playground for the children of Quito. It was 

 covered with grass and patches of dwarf shrubs. At the summit there was a 

 quantity of moss of the genus Macromitrmm, and abundance of the lichens F/tyscia 

 chrysophthalma, DC, and P. flavicans, DC. Amongst this vegetation I collected 

 about thirty species of spiders, beetles, etc., including those which are enumerated 

 in the Supplementary Appendix, Preface, p. ix. 



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