... THE ANDES AND THE AMAZON: OR, ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF SOUTH AMERICA. By JAMES ORTON, M.A. PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF ... out of the swamps of the lowlands,[Pg 45] and, though under the equator, out of the tropics too. The fresh mountain breeze and the chilly mists announced a change of climate.[12]Fevers and ... stretching across the valley from Cotopaxi to Iliniza, is a part of the great water-shed of the continent the waters on the southern slope flowing through the Pastassa and Amazon to the Atlantic,...