Cotopaxi, a volcano of the Andes, in Ecuador, the highest and most active in the world, nearly 20,000 ft., 35 m. SE. of Quito; it rises in a perfect cone, 4400 ft. above the plateau of Quito.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cotman, John Sell * Cotswold Hills