Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894
- Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.,
New York, 5 Bond Street
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
- Viewed
as a whole the lake would present the form of an elongated oval but for
a chain of hills revealed by a line of emerged summits, and disposed in
the direction of the main axis parallel with both shores. Thus have
been upraised the southern peninsula of Tiahuanuco and neighbouring
islands; the large promontory of Capocabana connected with the west
coast by a narrow stem; the long island of Titicaca ; a limestone and
sandstone hill which has given its name to the lake ; lastly, the
island of Coati and other smaller lands which have become famous in
Peruvian mythology. One of these islands is indicated in the national
legends as the cradle of man and civilisation. Although standing at a
high altitude in the cold regions, Titicaca is fringed with an
impenetrable forest of reeds covering all the low- lying tracts ; it
also supports a few animal organisms, amongst others fish of the
orestias family, a few siluridte (catfish), and eight species of
allorchestes, a crustacean apparently of pelasgic origin.t Films of ice
are formed around the margin, but Titicaca is never completely frozen,
even in the hardest winters. It affords pasturage to animals at all
seasons, in summer along the shores, in winter in the water itself,
where they graze on a lacustrine vegetation growing down to a depth of
3 or 4 feet below the surface.
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