1 882.] Geography and Travels. 



its lame districts are the most elevated in the globe. It is vva 



John Hill discussed some points of the physical geog- 

 raphy of South America, and especially the "remarkable con- 

 sides of the continent. On the eastern side of the great range 

 of the Andes, which extends from north to south, a distance of 



pire of Brazil, 110111" some degrees north of the equator to the 



f^Uity and th • the tro ,ical i i ma an 1 ;1 >ra. 



On the opposite or western side, the tropical climate, with its 

 characteristic vegetation, extends to the Pacific coast from the 

 Isthmus of Panama to the Hay of Guayaquil. But the headlands 



ithesouth of the Argentine* 



