Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
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This Position Is
Unquestionably To Be Found In Europe In Primitive Mountains; But In
General The Granular Diabasis Is More Frequently Connected With The
System Of Transition Rocks, Especially With A Schist
(Ubergangs-Thonschiefer) Abounding In Beds Of Lydian Stone Strongly
Carburetted, Of Schistose Jasper,* (Kieselschiefer.) Ampelites,*
(Alaunschiefer.) And Black Limestone.
Near Antimano all the orchards were full of peach-trees loaded with
blossom.
This village, the Valle, and the banks of the Macarao,
furnish great abundance of peaches, quinces, and other European
fruits for the market of Caracas. Between Antimano and Ajuntas we
crossed the Rio Guayra seventeen times. The road is very fatiguing;
yet, instead of making a new one, it would perhaps be better to
change the bed of the river, which loses a great quantity of water
by the combined effects of filtration and evaporation. Each
sinuosity forms a marsh more or less extensive. This loss of water
is to be regretted in a province, nearly all the cultivated
portions of which are extremely dry. The rains are much less
frequent and less violent in this place than in the interior of New
Andalusia, at Cumanacoa, and on the banks of the Guarapiche. Many
of the mountains of Caracas enter the region of the clouds; but the
strata of primitive rocks dip at an angle of 70 or 80 degrees, and
generally to northwest, so that the waters are either lost in the
interior of the earth, or gush out in copious springs not southward
but northward of the mountains of the coast of Niguatar, Avila, and
Mariara.
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