Andes, an unbroken range of high mountains, 150 of them actively volcanic, which extend, often in double and triple chains, along the west of South America from Cape Horn to Panama, a distance of 4500 m., divided into the Southern or Chilian as far as 23½° S., the Central as far as 10° S., and the Northern to their termination.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Anderson, Sir Edmund * Andocides