The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217582155
Paperback|9780217582155
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 43 The Geography of Diseases in the Climates of Peru. By Archibald Smith, M.D. Peru is naturally divided into three physical regions, familiarly named by the natives, the Coast, Sierra, and Montana. Let us define their limits, as recognised in Peru. 1st, La Costa, or the Coast, stretches between the base of the Andes and shores of the Pacific. It is for the most part a continuous arid desert, intersected only here and there by fertilizing mountain-streams and rivers, many of which, though small in volume during the dry months on the Cordilleras, swell to a large size when it rains on the mountains. Thus, the Rimac at Lima often becomes a formidable river during the dry season on the Coast, when it rains torrents on the Andes. The breadth of this strip of desert between the mountains and sea rarely exceeds twenty leagues, but it extends the whole length of the coast for 1500 miles. 2d, La Sierra, or Andine division, comprises a wider region, extending from the belt where natural herbage commences on the western, to the furthest summit of the eastern Cordillera chain. It thus embraces all the valleys on the Pacific side of the Western Andes above the level of 7000 feet, and also includes the whole of the plains, hills, and valleys between the double Cordillera chains. From a little below the crest of the eastern mountains we have La Ceja, or brow of the Montana; and here begins the 3d, Geographical Division of Peru. This fertile region is called La Montana, from the Spanish word monte, which means a wood, thicket, or forest. Descending from the eastern Cordillera crest eastward, for a few leagues only, we come upon that warm and steaming woodland, which is lost in the Brazilian territory, and contains the head-streams of Peruvian river navigation, flow...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217582155 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021758215X |
| Weight | 1.08 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.74 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 332 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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