ABSTRACT
The hill lies south-south-west of Chimborazo at a distance of less than several miles, and is separated from that colossus only by the high plains of Luisa. Although people have been disinclined to regard this hill as a side eruption of the colossus, it is nonetheless certain that this eruption cone originated with subterranean forces below Chimborazo which, for millennia, had in vain sought an outlet. La Condamine and Bouguer state explicitly that they climbed Chimborazo up to an elevation of 14,400 feet; but they boasted that they saw the barometer at 15 inches 10 lines on Corazon, one of the most picturesque of the snow-capped mountains near Quito. The indigenous peoples of Quito had known long before the arrival of the French measurers that Chimborazo is the highest of all the snow-capped mountains in their region. The volcanic forces rage even below the bell- shaped augite porphyries that, like Chimborazo, have no crater.
