Archivo: The earth and its inhabitants (1894) (14579713840)

Descripción: Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches) Title: The earth and its inhabitants .. Year: 1894 (1890s) Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912 Subjects: Geography Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ^ mountains elsewhere, must be due to the incessant movement of thesand particles vibrating in the heat. The stronger the breeze the louder thenotes. Although in general somewhat regular in its trend, this part of the coastpresents a few small prominences, which resemble each other in their outline, andwhich are due to the underground forces all acting in the same direction. Thusthe shore stretching south of the Amotape hills is diversified by a series of hooks * Notes of a Xaturalist in South America, p. 114. 288 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS facing northwards and intercepting the sands, wliicli are carried along by thecurrent setting southwards. South of the Kio Santa the coast is similarly indentedby remarkably regular oval inlets, separated by islets and promontories from the Fig. 111.—Ports of Chimbote and Casma.Scale 1 : 550,000. Text Appearing After Image: 78°40- West or Greenwich 7S°20- Oto 10Fathoms. Depths. 10 to 50Fathoms. 50 Fathomsand upwards. 12 Miles. open sea. The sandy surf rolling landwards develops graceful curves whichreproduce on a large scale the symmetrical oval of the shore-line. Off the Peruvian seaboard the marine bed slopes rapidly down to greatdepths ; hence there are scarcely any islands, and even these are little more than. HYDEOGEAPHY OF PEEU. 289 headlands detached from the inaiuland by erosion. South of the promontoriesterminating in the Punta Parina and Punta Aguja caj)es the surface is studdedwith the two little insular groups of Lobos de Tierra and Lobos de Afuera.These are followed by others lying nearer to the shore, such as the Guailape,Huaura, Pescadores dAncon, San Lorenzo, and Hormigas de Afuera clusters, andlastly the Chinchas, so important before the exhaustion of their rich guano-beds, but now valueless except for the shelter they offer to the harbour ofPisco. The other reefs fringing the coast fa Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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