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MOUNTAIN'S OP SANTA MAETA. 
of Loxa (south lat 3° 5^ ; but we know that on the north 
ot that knot, the Cordilleras rise five times higher than the 
ma-jestic elevation of 2600 toises : ^ 
In the group of Quito 0“ to 2= south lat. (Chimborazo,, 
Anhsano Cayambe, Cotopaxi, Collanes, Tliniza, Sangav, 
, lungurahua.) ® 
In the group of Cundinamarca, lat. 4^ north (peak of 
lolinia, north of the Andes of Quindiu), 
In the group of Anahuae, from lat. 18° 59' to 19° 12^ 
a opocatepetl or the Great Volcano of iMexico, and 
Peak of Orizaba). If we consider the maritime Alps 
or mountains ot California and New Norfolk, either as 
a tmntinuation of the western chain of IMexico, that 
ot bonora, or as being linked by spurs to the central 
chijin, that of the Eoeky Mountains, we may add to the 
three preceding groups ; 
The group of Eussian America, rom lat. 60° to 70° (Mount 
Saint Uias). Over an extent of 63° of latitude, I know 
only twelve suinmits of the Andes which reach the 
neight ot 2600 toises, and consequently exceed bv 110 
toises, the height of Mont Blanc. Only three of these 
Sama"'‘““^ ® 
Mountains op 
®'i’^meration of the different 
systems of mountains, I place this group before the littoral 
chain of I ene^zuela, though the latterf being a northern 
prolongation of the Cordillera of Cundinamarca, is imme- 
diately ^mked with the chain of the Andes. The Sierra 
Neyado of Santa Marta is encompassed within two diver- 
Shmu'^n? "p ^°S 0 ta, and that of the 
Z abruptly like a fortified 
castle, amidst the plains extending from the gulf of Darien 
Magdalena, to the lake of Maracaybo.’’ 
inm, erroneously considered this insulated 
group of mountains covered with eternal snow, as the 
f ^ -a'® ' p°'’‘l‘^leras of Chita and Pamplona. 
nnll 1 ®* * ^®''ada de Santa Marta is 
only three or four leagues in length from east to west ; it is 
bounded (at nine leagues distance from the coast), by the 
