A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and Its Various Divisions, Τόμος 2

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A. Fullarton and Company, 1832

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Σελίδα 432 - In the upper zone, which is 8 or 10 miles in breadth, vegetation entirely disappears. The surface is, for the most part, flat and even, presenting a dreary expanse of snow and ice. In the midst of this desert, the lofty summit of the mountain is descried at a distance, rearing its tremendous head above the surrounding snows, and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent up this part is toilsome and hazardous. From the base the mountain rises, like a pyramid, by an acclivity nearly equal on all sides,...

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