The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-18
EcuADon.s sNow.cAPPsD roLCANoEs
within Human Vision Three are Activei Five
arc Sluinbering; Fourteen are Extinct.

within Humnn Vision Three are AotiVei rive
are SluinberinE; Fourteen arc Extinct.
From as Chicago Record.
AT SEA IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. July H.
Church. the famous artist. has asserted
that the grandest moutain scenery may
be found In Ecuador. and that there 10
nothing elsewhere so imposing. noth-
ing 80 sublime. as the group OF vo-
canic peaks that lie between Quito and the sea.
where he painted his wonderful picture. The
Heart OF theAndes." Nowhere are wilder freaks
in geographical formation: nowhere more
startling contrasts. Within human vision are
twenty two volcanoes covered with everlast-
ing snow and over fifty feet higher than Mont
are slumberinR ana the remainder are OK.
tinct The mountains OF Asia may surpass
those OF the Andes IN altitude; out there Is no
4 sea OF foothills with the varor lowering
stands in the foreground beyond the JunRles OF
the coast. and growing holder and holder, more
WHEN the discs call
their uneven SUBMITS are like the teeth
Uocano ssw RehP their anS and
approachable SUBMITS with stately grandeur,
with SHOWS that have lain for ages and still
defy the tropical sun. Some OF the peaks are
irregular. some are grotesgue in outline. and
the imaginative minds OF the natives have fan;
cled resem blances to various other works OF
nature. Some are calmly. grandly regular.
and the even snow upon their crests seems
edged with gold when 1t catches the reflection
OF the sun, and Is often rainbow OF colors-
violet. crimson, purple and orange.
Cotopaxi Is the loftiest OF active volcanoes,
but 1t has been slumbering for nearly forty
years. The only evidence OF internal activity
is the constant rumbling. which can often be
heard and felt 100 miles away, and frequently
q thin cloud OF smoke is seen creeping from
the crater and dissolving into the thin arr.
Edward Whymper. the English scientist.
elm bed to the summit OF Chimborazo ten or
twelve years ago, but no one has ever
reached the top OF Cotopaxi Many have at.
TEN pied 1t, but the walls are 50 steep, ana
tho snow Is 30 deep that ascent Is Impossible,
On the breast OF Cotopaxi Is great rock.
have named The, Inca's Head, That unre.
liable old story-tellcr called tradition says that
1t was once the summit Of the volcano. and iei!
on the day when the Spaniards stranglcd
Atahualpa, the last of the Inca emperors.
The last great eruption OF Cotopaxi was in
1859. 1t was followed by severe earthquake,
which caused great destruction and loss OF
life in the surrounding towns and villages.
In 1868 the volcano Tunguragua. one OF the
largest OF the group. and over inOO0 feet
high, became very much excited, ana us
charged immense masses OF lava ana ashes
simultaneously with terrestrial convuision
which extended along the entire south Pa
cfic coast Ii was then that the tidal wave
came into africa that lifted the United states
man-of-war Wateree over the roofs OF the
houses and landed 1t with a straight keel in a
| sandy plateau about half q mile from the ocean,
where IL still remains. When l last saw it, II
was used as clearinghouse.