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Such is the
elevation of some of these plains that they often exceed eight and
nine, and sometimes reach that of twelve thousand feet above the
level of the sea. The lowest of these plateaux is higher than the
summit of the Pass of the Great St Bernard, the highest inhabited
ground in Europe, which is 7545 feet above the level of the sea.
But such is the benignity of the climate, that at these prodigious
elevations, which even in the south of Europe are above the line
of perpetual snow, are to be found cities and towns, corn-fields
and orchards, and all the symptoms of rural felicity. The town of
Quito itself, the capital of a province of the same name, is
situated on a plateau, or elevated valley, in the centre of the
Andes, nearly 9000 feet above the level of the sea. Yet there are
found concentrated a numerous population, and it contains cities
with thirty, forty, and even fifty thousand inhabitants. After
living some months on this elevated ground, you experience an
extraordinary illusion.
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