. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. MOUNT CHIMBORAZO IN THE ANDES. 21,060 FEET HIGH.. A SOUTH AMERICAN INN. NATIVE HOTEL IN THE CORDILLERAS. 9QO SOUTH AMERICA OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY 291 Large steamers can sail it from its immensemouth, about 2200 miles across the plains. Many of its great tributaries are navigable,too, for hundreds of miles. Its width is mostimposing. When it enters the great plain it ishalf a mile broad, increasing in different parts ofits long course to a mile, two miles, four miles,and to fifty miles at its mouth. The water of theAmaz
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. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. MOUNT CHIMBORAZO IN THE ANDES. 21, 060 FEET HIGH.. A SOUTH AMERICAN INN. NATIVE HOTEL IN THE CORDILLERAS. 9QO SOUTH AMERICA OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY 291 Large steamers can sail it from its immensemouth, about 2200 miles across the plains. Many of its great tributaries are navigable, too, for hundreds of miles. Its width is mostimposing. When it enters the great plain it ishalf a mile broad, increasing in different parts ofits long course to a mile, two miles, four miles, and to fifty miles at its mouth. The water of theAmazon is fresh enough to drink 180 miles fromthe coast, and is distinguishable from the ocean byits color. The Father of Waters, the Mississippi-Missouri, is reckoned to be nearly 1000 mileslonger than the Amazon or the Nile, but the Ama-zon drains twice as much country as either river. The Amazons course is just south of the equa-tor, and most of the country is taken up with vasttropical forests, where wonderful trees, palms, tree-ferns, rubber, mahogany, and many others, all grow in the greatest luxuriance and profusion, t