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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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