THE 
WONDERS OE THE WORLDS 
and of the 
THREE KINGDOMS OF NATURE. 
THE MOUNTAINS OF THE ANDES, 
IN SOUTH AMEiUCA. 
« Mounlahis and all hUls-praisc the name of 
for hh name alone is excellent ; his glory is above me 
earth and heaven.” 
Among tlie wonders, or nncommon 
world, may be classed stupendous Mountains ; an 
the Andes, in South America, are the lotticsri ® 
tensive, and, therefore, the most wonderful. Desc p 
objects which are striking, because tliey are vas , o ‘ 
exciting appropriate ideas 5 and 
cal may be the accounts of tins class ot Nature s P °digies 
no just notions of their vastne.ss can be conveyed by } 
written or graphical representation. The magnitude 
object must be seen to be duly conceived, " 
wonders will be best felt by those who have visite • > 
Scoiland, Switzurlandj or the mountainoiis regions o 
rica or Aiia. „ . , .1^ 
The stupendous mourAtalns called by the ^ 
Cor-diUeras, (from cord, or chain, pronounced by Urem 
C<>r~dil~le^raSy) or Chains of the Andes, y ,v 
north and south, near the western coast, from the Islhmu 
of Darien, through the whole of the continent o 
America, to the Suaits of Magellan. In the north ere 
arc three chains or separate ridges, but in advancing rom 
Popayan towards the soutii, the three chains unite m o 
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