To the Andes

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Excerpt from To the Andes: Being a Sketch of a Trip to South America, With Observations by the Way on the Family, the Church and the State A Preface should rather be called a "Prefix, " for, in the most of cases, it is written after the work to which it is attached. Such, at least, is the case with this introduction, which is, at the same time, an apology for the appearance of the present book. In the spring of last year it was my good fortune to be asked to undertake certain professional work in New Granada and Ecuador, countries whose names had been in my mind associated with all that is sublime in mountain scenery, luxuriant in tropical vegetation, and interesting in volcanic phenomena, and which, moreover, had been rendered classic ground by the labours of some of the foremost scientific men of the present century. I very willingly engaged to do the work in question, and, while detained in Guayaquil attending to it, took the opportunity of crossing the Western Cordillera of the Andes, principally in order to pay my respects to those ancient mountain monarchs whose names I remembered from my school boy days. I did not anticipate that I would be able to obtain anything beyond the most distant introduction to Chimborazo and the other elevated peaks in its proximity, or that my geological observations, taken by themselves, would be of such a character as to justify me in bringing them prominently before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.