Note 56 — THE CATARACTS OF THE ORINOCO.
Elizabeth Juliana Sabine translation
p. 210.—“Over the snow-covered Paropanisus.”
Diodorus’s descriptions of the Paropanisus (Diodor. Sicul. lib. xvii. p. 553, Rhodom.) might almost pass for a description of the Andes of Peru. The Army passed through inhabited places where snow fell daily!