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1) Condamine p. 27. DeLoxa à Jaen on traverse les
derniers-çôteaux delà Cordeijère. Dans toute cette
route .', où il pleut, tous les fours, pendant onze ét
quçlque fois douze mois de l’année, il n'est pas possible
d’y rien chercher. ©0 non ber Soûl ©orgrntn
unter bem 30JJh 35. unb ber gegenüber Itegenbm wefl»
lichen 'ftôffe non America. ©ampler I. 222. 23. On
dît, qu’il y pleut tous les jours de l’année; les uns
plus, les autres moins ; mais c'est ce, que je puis
nier. Quoiqu’il en soit, la côte est extrêmement humide,
et il y pleut beaucoup le long de l’année. Il
n’y a que peu de beaux jours, et très peu de différence
dans les saisons de l’année entre l’humide, et
le sec.
2) 9lirg«nb in ber ÎBelt, fagt 33ruce, IT. 50. Ed. 4.,
f&nnen ^irtenooller weniger häufen, alê in joabefjtnten,
a country abound iry with mountains, where every
Hut piere of ground is; onre- a - day, during six
months rain, rut through by a number of torrents,
swuping cattle, trees, and every thing irresistibly
before them . , . u. © . 544* Great rivers falling from
the high country \vith prodigions^violence, during
the tropical rains, haal in the plains wastred away
the soil down to the solid rock..
3) 1. c. The mountains, nol jbyned in chains, or
fcheufjlidje ©pallet! nerunfhltet, unb biefe mit fd&ar^
feti ©teinen, ober Jeïébl&cfen angefullten ©palten ma*
chen bepnahe bte eitigtgen 9®ege aué, burch, vx>eïd)e man
auf bte 33erge Ijtttauf unb wieber herabfommen faun *)♦
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..fenbfaltige fotiberbare ©eflalten umgebilbet. ©tnige
habfeu baé Slnfehen non fdjmalen fenfrechten 5£dnben;
anbere non sppramtben, Öbeliêfen unb ^ridmen* Sa
matt trifft fogar etngelne Jelfett an, bte umgefehrten
^3pvamiben glejchen. 93 ru c e bemerfte bal;er, ba§
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men frapptrt l;4tten 2). ©en Jgabeflmtfchen 93ergen
ridges, run in one une upon the other, but standing
each upon its particular base, are accessible all
around, and interspersa with plains.
v 1} Bruce III. 64. The mountains of Abyssinia havé a
singular aspect. as they-appeas in three ridges.
The fiest Is of no considerable height, but full of
gujlies, and broken ground, thiuly revered with
< shrubs; the second., higher, and stup.er, still mon
' rugged and hare; tfre therd is a ron of sharp(Uneven
edged mountains . . . p. 73« We were everg-
where sarrounded by mountain?, bleak, .bare, blak,
and covered with lops® stones, entirely destitute
of soil. p. 76. We began to asaend the mountain,
through a most rocky, uneven road, if it can deserve
thé name, pot only fronc its incredible steepness,
but fronc the large holes anc} qullies made by
the torrentss, and the huge monstrous fragments of
rocks., which, löosened by the water, had been
tuncbled down into our way. p. 77 , our hauds and
Knees were all rat, mangled, and blading, with
sliding down, and clumbering over the sharp points
of the rocks.
2) III. 1 14. We now began fiest to sec the. liigh