This alpine antelope, unlike its cousin of the plains, is only at home on dizzy heights, and summer and winter alike lives at timber-line on the mountains or in the alpine gardens adjacent to perpetual snow.
Nowhere do they invade the region of perpetual snow, and glaciers are absent.
Northern and southern limits of perpetual snow on the Himalaya; influence of the elevated plateau of Thibet -- p.
Limits of perpetual snow, and the fluctuations in these limits.
Georgia, which is in the 54 degrees south latitude, or the same parallel as Yorkshire, the line of perpetual snowdescends to the level of the ocean.
There is every reason to believe that the counter-trade flows north in a regular descending plane, not materially differing from that of the line of perpetual snow.
A considerable portion of this journey was over eastern and less elevated portions of the Andes; but little below, however, the line of perpetual snow.
Range and peak are clothed with perpetual snow, which gleams like porcelain in the sun.
On either hand is the row of famous volcanoes, a mighty avenue of great peaks, often clothed in green up to the line of perpetual snow.
Thus in the cold and the bleakness of the high hills do we find the white metal in Bolivia: we find, indeed, two white metals verging upon the regions of perpetual snow--silver and tin.
On its bosom repose the summits of gigantic mountains, which reach the region of perpetual snow.
As we look back from the limit of perpetual snow we see the whole great procession in a glance.
Rising directly out of the plains of India, practically within the tropics, these mountains rise far above the limits of perpetual snow.
The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow.
An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
The wild yak of central Asia is the largest native animal of Tibet, and is found only near the limits of perpetual snow.
The lower limit of perpetual snow, called the snow line, is found, within the tropics, about three miles above the level of the sea.
The alpaca is a native of the Andes, from the equator to Tierra del Fuego, but is most frequent on the highest mountains of Peru and Chile, almost on the borders of perpetual snow, congregating in flocks of one or two hundred.
They are covered by a wide mantle of perpetual snow, and numerous cascades pour their waters, through the woods, into the narrow channel below.
It should be remembered that one-eighth of the country lies within the region of perpetual snow, and that these lofty and nearly inaccessible heights are robed in a constant garb of bridal whiteness.
Though Oahu is quite mountainous, like the rest of the islands which form the Hawaiian group, still none of these reach the elevation of perpetual snow.
This comprehends all that portion of the Alps that rises above the limit of perpetual snow.
On the south side, although the limit of perpetual snow is lower, the vine often reaches near to the foot of the greater peaks.
They soon came to the limits of perpetual snow, where new difficulties presented themselves, as the treacherous ice gave an imperfect footing, and a false step might precipitate them into the frozen chasms that yawned around.
The highest is Cotopaxi, in the range of the Andes, which rises far into the region of perpetual snow.
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