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Show ANNOTATIONS A D ADDITIONS. 445 sati factory accordance, and all the elements of the calculation are placed before the public. The too ea terly longitude of Quito was tran ferred by La Condamine to Cuenca and the Amazons river. "Je fis," say La Condamine, "mon premier essai de navigation sur un radeau (bal a) en descendant la riviere de Chinchipe jusqu'a Tomependa. ll fallut me contenter d'en determiner la latitude et de conclure la longitude par les routes. J'y fi.s mon testament politique en redigeant l'extrait de mes observations le plus importantes." (Journal du Voyage fait a l'Equateur, 1751, p. 186.) (u) p. 423.-" At 1pwards of twelve thousand feet above the sea we· found fossil marine shells." See my Essa.i ge9gnostique sur le Gisement des Roches, 1823, p. 236; and for the first zoological determination of the fossils contained in the cretaceous group in the chain of the Andes, see Leop. de Buch, Petrifactions recueillies en Amerique, par Alex. de Humboldt et Charles Degenhardt, 1839 (in fol.), pp. 2-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 18-22. Pentland found fossil shells of the Silurian formation in Bolivia, on the N evado de Antakaua, at the height of 16,000 French (17 ,480 English) feet (Mary Somerville, Physical Geography, 1849, vol. i. p. 185). ('51) p. 427 .-" Whm·e the chain of the Andes is intersected by the magnetic equato1·. '' Compare my Relation hist. du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales, t. iii. p. 622 ; and Cosmos, bd. i. s. 191 and 432; where, however, by errors of the press, the longitude is once 48 ° 40', and afterwards 80° 40', instead of, as it should be, 80° 54' from Paris (or 78° 32' from Greenwich), (English edit. p. 173, and note 159). ( 18) p. 429 .-"Accompanied by inconvenient ceremonies of court etiquette." In conformity with a highly ancient court ceremonial, Atahuallpa spat not on the ground, but into the hand of one of the principal ladies present; "all," says Garcilasso, "on account of his majesty." El Inca nunca escupia en el suelo, sino en la mano de una Senora 88 |