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the ocean, the view of the volcano of Pichincha 

 is less majestic on the eastern, than on the west- 

 ern side, where the vast forests of the Esmeraldas 

 begin. The distances, and several angles of al- 

 titude, which served for this sketch, were deter- 

 mined by means of a sextant of Ramsden's. 



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