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nomenon is the confused congeries of hills of considerable altitude, from 
6000 to 7000 feet high, thickly timbered, whence subordinate ranges ra- 
diate as centres. Each valley thus formed is the bed of a stream of 
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tain contains the headwaters of no fewer than six of these within’a simi- 
Jar area, the streams in every case radiating to every point of the pe- 
nphery. The views from the summits of these mountains are described 
as splendid. 
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Winters somewhat resembled those of England, though the extremes were 
Sreater; and that the rainfall there is about 54 inches annually.—Proe, 
Roy. Geogr, Soc., March 14th, viii, 87. 
5. A newly discovered pass across the Andes,—Sefor Cox, the son of 
an English physician at Valparaiso, has discovered a pass across the 
; Not over 2800 feet high in its most elevated part. He started in 
ae 2 from Port Montt, a uew German settlement now containing 15,000 
lebca tants, near the island of Chiloe, and proceeded by way of the two 
tai Lianguilhue and Todos-os-Sautos, and crossed over the pass to the 
‘Almost unknown inland sea of Nagel-huapi (Lake of Tigers), on the east- 
£m side of the Andes.— Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. May 9. 
