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Title: Mountain adventures in various parts of the world
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t, we penetrated intoclouds, by entering them from above : a little lower,hail began to fall, which considerably chilled theair, and at the moment at which we met the Indianwho took care of our mules, the cloud broke over usin hail that was so large as to be quite painful whenthe hailstones struck either our heads or faces. In proportion as we descended an icy rain wasmixed with the hail. Night surprised us on theroad; and it was eight oclock when we reached thefarm. The observations which I was able to collectduring this excursion tend all of them to confirmmy ideas on the nature of the trachyte mountainswhich form the chain of the Cordilleras; for I haveseen repeated on Chimborazo aU the facts which Ihave noticed in treating of the volcanoes of theequator. It is evidently itself an extinct volcano,like Cotopaxi, Antisana, Tunguragua, and in gen-eral the mountains which stand thickly on theplateaux of the Andes. The mass of Chimborazo isformed by the accumulation of trachytic debris,
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THE CORDILLERAS, PERU. CHIMBORAZO. 335 heaped together without any order. These frag-ments, of a size which is often enormous, have beenthrown together in a solid state; their angles arealways sharp, and nothing indicates that there hasbeen any fusion, or even a simple state of softness.Nowhere in any of the volcanoes of the equatordoes one observe anything which would lead one topresume that there had been a flow of lava ; nothingbut muddy, elastic fluids, or incandescent blocks oftrachyte, more or less solid, have come out of thesecraters, and these have often been thrown to con-siderable distances. On the 23rd of December, in the afternoon, Iquitted Kiobamba, directing my course towardsGuayaquil, where I was to embark in order to visitthe coast of Peru. It was in sight of Chimborazothat I separated from Col. Hall. During my stayin the province of Quito I had enjoyed his con-fidence and his friendship ; his perfect acquaintancewith the localities had been of the greatest use tome, a

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