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Title: The Andes and the Amazon :;bor across the continent of South America
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Orton, James
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Publisher: New York: Harper
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London

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g in a balloon over the undulating, flowery surfaceabove. There, too, in that green cloud are the insects andbirds and monkeys. You are in the empty nave of thecathedral, and the service is being celebrated aloft in theblazing roof. In place of mosses and lichens, the trunksand boughs are bearded with epiphytic orchids, ferns, til-landsias, cactuses, etc., frequently forming hanging gardensof great beauty. In ascending the river, the traveler,even if an acute botanist, is rarely able to distinguish in-dividual trees, save the Palms and certain lofty, dome-shaped crowns; for the branches are so thoroughly inter-woven and so densely veiled with twiners and epiphytes,that one sees little more than a green wall. He mightroam a hundred years in the Amazons thicket, and atthe end find it impossible to classify the myriad, crowded,competing shapes of vegetation. The roots, even of thegiants, are not deep. The temperature of the interior ofthe forest is generally lower than by the river-bank.
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Deposits In the Amazons Valley. 190 The Andes a:sd the Amazons. The Amazonian sjlva is naturally divided into: 1st.The Great or Virgin Forests (Caa-guacu of the Brazil-ians), which clothe the terra firma beyond the reach ofinundations, and constitute the great mass of the vegeta-tion. Here grow the fine timber-trees and the most lordlytrunks, as the Brazil-nut-trees.* The Palms are peculiarand few. 2d. The Low or White Forests (Caa-tinga),rich and varied, growing on the vargem, or occasionallyflooded tracts. Palms, pao-mulatto, and wild cacao arecharacteristic forms. 3d. The Kiparial Forests (Ygajm)on lowlands bordering the rivers, and laid under waterseveral months in the year. The soil is the most recentalluvium. Here thrive herbaceous plants, reeds, broad-leaved heliconias, and soft - wooded trees, as embaiibas.Besides these are the second-growth forests (Caa-jmha)^and the scrubby campos. The woods growing in thesalt marshes near Para have the general name of Mangiies,and consist m

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