Identifier: earthitsinhabita18recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, Augustus Henry, 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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xtent in the direction of the mountains, and at the foot of theCordillera the woods are continuous. In the hot lands, palms arc represented by numerous species, which supply thenatives with food, drink, clothes, habitations and various implements. Somemembers of this familj are even found jjcnetrating into the temperate lands, andthe variety known to botanists bj the name of eiitcrpe andicola grows on thesteepest slopes of the Cochabamba range almost in immediate proximity to the line • Mean temperature of some Bolivian towns :— Latitude. Altitude Tomp<-ralUTO. La Paz . . 16°30 . . Il,9;j0feet . . . 50° Fahr. Gxhabamba . . 17° 27 . . . 8.400 ,, . . . 68° „ Tipuani . . . 15° 35 . . . 1,9j0 „ . . . 73 „ BOLIVIAN FLOEA. 307 of permanent snow. Like the tree-ferns, this palm lies on the verge of the zoneof woody vegetation. Despite the great altitude of the plateau, the shores of LakeTiticaca have also some arborescent forms, such, amongst others, as the dwarf olive. I 60
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Above the zone of trees the prevailing form is the Uareta, a plant with strongroots, and a dense foliage closely matted together like a yellowish lichen, and inappearance presenting a musty metallic surface. 868 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEOIONS. Fmna. The mammalian fauna of Bolivia dilfors little from that of Peru, except inrespect of the greater or less relative abundance of tiic various species. In theregion of the Yungas one of the animals most frequently met is the capybara, orcabiai as it is called in Brazil (/ii/flroc/iwriis capi/hara), a large rodent about threefeet in length, which commits great devastations on the plantations along theriver-banks. In general appearance it resembles a diminutive hippopotamus, butis allied to the guinea-pig family. The country is also extremely rich in all the smaller forms of animal life, suchas birds, buttertlies and beetles. Humming-birds of exquisite form and colour aremet on the very summits of the mountains ; Hugo Reck saw some flitting

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