Note 56 — ON THE CATARACTS OF THE ORINOCO, Near Atures and Maypures.
Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn translation
p. 156—“Across the snow-crowned Paropanisus.”
In Diodorus’ description of the Paropanisus,[IE] we seem to recognise a delineation of the Peruvian chain of the Andes. The army passed through inhabited districts in which snow daily fell!