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
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Ueptlis. 0 to 50Fathoms. 50 Fathomsand upwaids. 18 Miles. permanent emigration of the surjolus population of Chiloe is directed towardsthe cities of the mainland. The labyrinth of Magellanic islands has hitherto attracted but few settlers.They are naturally repelled from this region of rains, snows and high gales.Nevertheless the ocean steamers have already established a few stations, which maybe regarded as so many starting points of future settlements. A stock-breedingfarm has been founded on the banks of the Pulena, at one of the most conveniententrances to the Southern Andes. Here an estate of nearly 500,000 acres of arableland is owned by a single proprietor. TOPOGRAPHY OF CHILI. 465 Melinca—PuNTA Arenas—Mas a Tierra. A German has founded the station of Melinca on one of the islands of theGuaitecas group. Some Frenchmen have settled on a member of the Chonos Archi- Fig. 178.—PuNTA Aeenas (Sandy Point).Scale 1: 800,000.
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7130 West oF uree nwich 70°50 Hepths OtoôOFathoms. 50 Fathomsand upwards. . 12 Miles. pelago, where they engaged in the tinned mussel business. The well-shelteredports of Otwmj and Comcay in the south of the Chonos and Wellington Islandsserve as convenient harbours of refuge for vessels in distress navigating thosestormy seas. Navigators also find good shelter, abundance of fuel, pasturage and 31 466 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES LEGIONS. pure drinkable water in Port Eden south of the English Narrows, in Puerto Buenoat the northern entrance of Smyth Strait, and at Midioz Gomero at the southernentrance of the same channel in King Williams Land. Till recently the shores of Magellan Strait and of Tierra del Fuego wereregarded as condemned to perpetual solitude and death. The frequent shipwrecksthat have taken place about the headlands and fringing reefsof the insular groups,the reports of mariners regarding the storm-tossed waters, the torrential rains andintense cold of the Cape Horn arch

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