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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
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et of water,known as lake Titicaca. This lake has an outlet which carriesa small portion of the water southward, but much of the water THE MIDDLE AND NORTHERN ANDES. NS > 57 evaporates and the lake is therefore slightly brackish. The outletdoes not reach the sea but flows into a salt swamp. Lake Titicaca is in the northern part of a region having nodrainage to the sea. This region extends southward into Patagonia. Titicaca is the largest lake in South America and is the loftiestlarge body of water in the New World. It is only surpassed in height Much of the bark is stripped from trees. Some of it is alsotaken from slender shoots that spring up from the roots of treeswhich have been cut down. The descendants of the Incas gatherlarge quantities of the bark. For more than a thousand miles along the west slopeof the middle Andes, there is a regionknown as the rainless coast. The desertof Atacama, at thesouthern end of therainless coast, mergesinto the fertile plainof middle Chile. This
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by some of the lakes in the great central highland ofAsia. This lake is nearly as high as the mountain passabout which we read in lesson 45, yet the lake shoreis dotted with towns and villages. Although high, theplateau of Bolivia is too near the equator to be verycold. Corn and potatoes grow around the lake, andcattle, alpacas and llamas graze there. The mountainsyield much silver ore. Steamboats navigate the lake, and a railroad leadsdown to the coast. The steamers and cars connect at the town ofluno which is shown in one of the pictures on the opposite page. Northwest of Bolivia the plateau is neither so widenor quite so high. In the Andes of Peru, the rangeson the east are separated by long and deep valleys inwhich many rivers flow to the lowlands. The rains ofthe trade winds are very heavy on this eastern mountainslope which is therefore covered with dense forests. Many years ago a band of white men from Spain, in Europe,went into the highland of the middle Andes. They found ther

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