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Cotopaxi

the most remarkable volcanic mountain of the Andes, in Ecuador, about 60 miles N. E. of Chimborazo; lat. 0° 43′ S.; lon. 78° 40′ W.; altitude, 19,500 feet. It is the most beautiful of the colossal summits of the COTTON COTSWOLD HILLS Andes, being a perfectly symmetrical and is one of the purest forms of celtruncated cone, presenting a uniform, lulose. Although cotton-seed, which is unfurrowed field of snow of resplendent produced at the ratio in weight of cotton-seed, which is brightness. Several terrific eruptions of two and a half to three parts of seed it occurred in the course of the 18th to each one of fiber, has long been the and the beginning of the 19th century. source of valuable oils and food for cattle The most recent eruption was in 1903. in Egypt and India, the cotton-seed of the United States was in former days

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