The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-29

do se were optical Illusions
we-a atmosphere. but they
where else lave seen no
mere arr many other lakes or The
p,at-aus of the Andes N per-, -
.aaoor and also in rolomria -
LUNG Lake suataytta. which III.
huahs "orShiped and into which
80. thre" offerings Of gold and ssi-
-. nave already written OF Lake
crco@' II which tie golden chain 81
- lies buried. and the-- arr prob
- INC treasures in noSt OF IT,
oooi-S OF water which lie be.ve~n n.
'"o great Andean ranges.
| am writing this under the shadow
~ mount A~concagua- 1t Is about
s''o"o feet high and il kisses the sky
20 above any other point on our
hemisphere. Mount Merced~rio in
Argentina IS only 100 feet lower. and
~ and Sorata are each
more than Il. 00o feet. The same Is
True of Iiimani. which. like Sorara.
LOOKS down on Lake Titicaca. and
C~hlmboborazo in Ecuador IS very
near n same height. The average
range of the Andes throughout is
more than $4,000 feet high. II is
highest range on earth. with the
OF the Hinlalayas, which
are about 5000 feet higher.
have seen the great mountains Of
AFRICA. Mount Kenia is a mile under
the top Of A~concagua. and Kilimanja-
70 Is 5000 feet lower. Kiimaniaro
ana ChlmboraZo are of about the
same height, and il you could have
a wireless station III their tops you
might communicate with one another
on the same plane OF air.
And this reminds me thai We are
now sending wireless messages RICH,
over tho Andes p. Ft hos a u-irolaee
station on one OF her foothills which
is farther below the tops OF the
mountains than the height of Pike,
Peak. Nevertheless. they have sen
messages right over the range ant
have had them received by wireless.
stations right in Rio de Janeiro. not
W~ithstanding the whole continen
lies between. Rio de Janeiro is OF
the level Of the sea. Those message!
climbed up over 1900 feet and thel
slid down to the sea level, travelling
distance longer than from Boston {
the Great Salt lake. The highest o
the Hirnalayas is Mount Everest. |
measures $4,000 feet. IF you coul
put Mount Washington on top o
!; Aconcagua it would just about equa
5 n height of Mount Everest til
( highest mountain Of the worlC
: Mount Everest is over twice As hig
$ as Pixies Peak or Mount Shasta. 1t
twice as high as Fujivana and IL
600 feet higher than Mount Arara
on which Moan dropped the ark.
Our biggest mountain is Mount Nc
. Kinley. in Alaska 1t correspond
with ChimboraZo. and is less in heigf
y than Sorata and Illimani, which Al
each $1,000.
- All Of these big South America
= mountains are capped with perpetu;
snow. Even those Of Ecuador, Whic
: lie on the equator, have ice all tt
year round. There are glaciers a
most everywhere, and you cal &C /
the railroad to within a stones thro
Of them in Peru and see them han,
4 ing down over your train as you pas
4 1 sent q rifle shot into a glacier fro
the baggage-car door as I rode ov'
the pass that leads to the Morocco
- mines, at an altitude OF 1856 fe
e above the sea. That is the highe
:, railroad point of the world and II
n glaciers lie within a stones throw
the train.
q The volcanoes Of the Andes a
numbered by scores, and many
n them are still splitting out ashes III
I flames and molten rock. There is
other place in the world which offe
SO good a field for the study
At geology. There are new formatio
IS at every step, and the skin seems
be orr from old Mother Earth a
IN her inner workings laid bare. As
le climbed up the Southern railway
Or Peru l rode for many miles throu'
lava about the slopes Of Mount Nil
ID which is 20, 900 feet high. n on I
way from Bolivia to Chile / saw gre
a. windrows of ava near the volcano
IN Of St Peter and st. Paul which oft
an break out in eruption. IN Sol
places you see great fields Of la
ed and again cascades OF lava, where
molten rock has CONCEALED and hal
IT. ened on it's way down the hills. n
SIS the lava is in millions Of fragmel
C a the size Of your fist. Now it is a Fl
"a sand and now the fragments ha
ill been rolled over and over until tn
er are boulders. The plateau
d. Bolivia, which is as big As Virginia,
he covered with boulders Of many colo
The rocks Of the Andes are as p
on turesQue as those Of the Coiora
canyon or the Yellowst~ ae Park. y
they are black, and now white
by snow. Here they are composed Of