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STllVCIUEE OF THE AXDE3. 
the same 
™ Cordilleras may have been termed “Copper- 
tEnf 1 ° account of the abundance of 
The Tnc^ r’ ^®™'\ans employed for their tools. 
and Sn t Peruvian princess, 
and who wrote the history of his native country‘s in the 
mi‘^nr +1 congest, gives no etymology of the 
rp<i?nn ^ Andes. He only opposes Anti-suyu, or the 
thf XinsT'-r ^ (ritiseca), to 
C e plains or 1 uncap that is. to the lower region of Peru. 
of the mountain chain 
The structure of the Cordillera of the Andes that is 
its division into several chains nearly parallel which are 
O^iroui^maJs^r^^f® of mountains, is very ’remarkable, 
mid T structure is indicated but imperfectly; 
and what La Condamine and Bouguer merely euessed 
during their lon^ visit to the table-land of Quito^ his been 
the described 
The M n±“ to the type of the equatorial Andes, 
iilleet h™®n * accurate information I could 
of twLti^£ ‘"‘^tive correspondence 
The^^pP^i""^ inhabitants of Spanish America, 
diain of A d^^^^ called Tierra del Fuego, in which the 
EsiSib? begins, is a plain extending from Cape 
Espmtu Santo as far as the canal of San Sebastian. The 
country on tho west of this canal, between Cape Sail 
^ Pdares, is bristled with granitij^moun- 
Agueda to Cabo 
Eedondo) with calcareous shells. Navigators have greatly 
exaggerated the height of the mountfins of TierlT del 
buriSno * appears to be a volcano still 
neakof CnJi' found the height of the western 
peakot Cape Pilares (lat. 52“ 45' soutli) only 218 toises; 
hish probably not more tha/ 500 toises* 
Stfdts extends on the northern shore of the 
Straits of MageUan, from the Virgin’s Cape to Cabo Negro; 
498 toUes ^ ’ reJi-action, would gi« it a height of 
