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"Sierra Parime", and a river too

In Darwin I come across this (On the Origin of species; 3rd ed., p. 315):

"Admitting then that such rocks as gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c., were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the extensive and naked areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? That such extensive areas do exist cannot be doubted: the granitic region of Parime is described by Humboldt as being at least nineteen times as large as Switzerland."

That does not look like it's about a lake, dried up or not.
Research brings out the quote from Humboldt, here not referenced by Darwin, from Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804, vol. 3, Alexander Von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland. In it are a number of references to a Sierra Parime, also Cordillera of the Parime (p. 304 among others), chain of the Parime (p. 294), etc.
p. 292 says that the highest summit of the "group of the mountains of Parime" is 1 300 toises (see below).
p. 344: "Raleigh first made known, in 1596, the system of the mountains of Parime, between the sources of the Rio Carony and the Essequibo, by the name of Wacarima (Pacarima)."
p. 345: "surpasses in extent nineteen times that of the whole of Switzerland".
and p. 381: "The Sierra Parime is one of the most extensive granitic strata existing on the globe".

The same book also mentions "rio Parime" (p. 342), "a tributary of the Uraricuera".

About the height: Astronomie populaire (Arago), book XX, chapter 15, p. 236 (in French) says :
Hauteurs des cimes des chaînes de montagnes de l'Amérique autres que les Cordillères des Andes. (Heights of summits of American mountains other than the Andes cordillera) :
Duida (Sierra Parime) : 2 553 mètres.

Pueblo89 (talk) 16:17, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]