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13 deg W.to 30 deg S., at about the height of twelve thousand feet, deeply furrowed rocks...and likewise great masses of detritus, including grooved pebbles.

Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist, even at much more considerable height.

"), you will find a brief allusion, on authority of Mr.D.Forbes, on the former much lower extension of glaciers in the equatorial Cordillera.

Pray also look at page 407 at what I say on the nature of tropical vegetation (which I could now much improve) during the Glacial period.

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