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TRAVELS

AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES

OF THE EQUATOR


BY

EDWARD WHYMPER



WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS



To sit on rocks, to muse o’er flood and fell,
To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene,
Where things that own not man’s dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne’er, or rarely been;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,

· · · · ·

This is not solitude; ’tis but to hold
Converse with Nature’s charms, and see her storess unroll’d. Byron.


SECOND EDITION


LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

1892


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