The Polar And Tropical Worlds: a Description of Man And Nature in the Polar And Equatorial Regions of the Globe
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These so-called foot-prints look not unlike the impressions of a gigantic foot, thirty-six inches long and of corresponding breadth. They are formed in outline by hard ferruginous veiqs around which the softer rock has been worn away, leaving them in relief. The sacred island of the Incas is now the property of a resident of Puna, a city on the shore of the lake containing 7,000 inhabitants. It is the loftiest spot on the globe which is the site of any considerable town. It stands 12,870 feet a...bove the level of the sea. The mining town of Potosi is indeed 500 feet higher, and there are among the Andes post-stations and farms much higher. The station of Eumihuasi, in the Puna, the loftiest permanently inhabited spot in the New World, is 15,542 feet high — only 242 feet below the summit of Mont Blanc ; and the gold mine of Thok Jalung in Thibet is 18,330 feet above the sea. The proprietor of the sacred island has a hacienda close by the "Bath of the Incas." "It consists," says Squier, " of three small buildings, occupying as many sides of a court.
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