Mausoleum of Hyder Aly, 586-The Taje Mahal, a Mauso- Porcelain Tower at Nankin, to face the Title. The Andes near Quito. Distant view of Etna. Interior of the crater of Vesuvius. Dropping Well at Knaresbo Termites' Ant Hills.. Pyramids of Djiza. Entrance to the principal Pyramid of Djiza. Enormous cloud of smoke issuing Remarkable form of one of the from Vesuvius. Vesuvius and Naples. The Geysers and Hecla. Pyramids of Saccara. Stonehenge. View of Palmyra. St. Peter's of Rome. Part of the Ruins of Babylon. Bethlehem. WONDERS OF THE WORLD, AND OF THE THREE KINGDOMS OF NATURE. THE MOUNTAINS OF THE ANDES, IN SOUTH AMERICA. [See Plate, No. 2.] "Mountains and all hills—praise the name of the Lord; for his name alone is excellent: his glory is above earth and heaven.” AMONG the wonders, or uncommon phenomena of the world, may be classed stupendous Mountains; and of these the Andes, in South America, are the loftiest, the most extensive, and, therefore, the most wonderful. Description of objects which are striking, because they are vast, often fail in exciting appropriate ideas; and however accurate or poetical may be the accounts of this class of Nature's Prodigies, no just notions of their vastness can be conveyed by any written or graphical representation. The magnitude of an object must be seen to be duly conceived, and mountain-wonders will be best felt by those who have visited Wales, Scotland, Switzerland, or the mountaneous regions of America or Asia. The stupendous mountains called by the Spaniards the Cordilleras, (from cord, or chain, pronounced by them Cor-dil-le-ras,) or Chains of the Andes, (An'-des,) stretch north and south, near the western coast, from the Isthmus of Darien, through the whole of the continent of South America, to the Straits of Magellan. In the north there are three chains of separate ridges, but in advancing from Popayan towards the south, the three chains unite into 2 |