. The earth and its inhabitants .. . fjChacabuco viejo West or Greenwich 'â ^ 18 Miles. turas rise to 5,000 feet. This section of the Argentine orographic system had also at one time its active volcanoes, like the frontier Cordillera farther west. The Alumine, Mesa, and Chapel-co heights are all cones of Andésite, while scores of other peaks flank both sides of the Rio Collon-cura. Their extinct craters are now clothed with beech and myrtle groves ; but a cone near the sources of the Biobio has laid all the surrounding districts under ashes. Here the traces of

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