id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 19209 Orton, James The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America .txt text/plain 100759 6952 79 and finishing it where the great river appears a fresh-water ocean. Down the Amazon.--Steam on the Great River.--Loreto.--San Antonio.--Tabatinga. Life within the Great River.--Fishes.--Alligators.--Turtles.--Porpoises Life around the Great River.--Origin of the Red Man.--General Characteristics bank of the River Guayas, sixty miles from the ocean, and but a few feet The coffee-tree is about eight feet high, and has dark green leaves, Captain Lee's little steamers to Bodegas, seventy miles up the river. Quito, though not the highest city on the globe, is two thousand feet Quito.--Primeval Inhabitants of the Andes.--Quichua Indians. The moment the Andes arose, the great continental valley of the Amazon Sea-Cows and Turtles' Eggs.--The Forest.--Peccaries.--Indian Tribes Sea-Cows and Turtles' Eggs.--The Forest.--Peccaries.--Indian Tribes Down the Amazon.--Steam on the Great River.--Loreto.--San The Amazon began to look more like a lake than a river, having a width The forest of the Amazon is less full of life than the river. ./cache/19209.txt ./txt/19209.txt