Note 28 — STEPPES AND DESERTS.
Elizabeth Juliana Sabine translation
p. 14.—“Keeping by preference to the cooler mountain regions.”
Throughout Mexico and Peru the traces of a great degree of civilisation are confined to the elevated plateaux. We have seen on the Andes the ruins of palaces and baths at heights between 1600 and 1800 toises (10230 and 11510 English feet). It can only have been men of a northern race, who, migrating from the north towards the south, could find delight in such a climate.