Spanish America: Or A Descriptive, Historical, and Geographical Account of the Dominions of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental and Insular; Illustrated by a Map of Spanish North America, and the West-India Islands; a Map of Spanish South America, and an Engraving, Representing the Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains in Those Regions, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - 336 Seiten |
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Seite 158 - San Juan de Nicaragua, because he describes this as the principal seaport of Nicaragua on the Caribbean sea; says there are " three portages'' between the lake and the mouth of the river, and " these carrying places are defended, and at one of them is the fort, San Juan, called also, the castle of...
Seite 161 - ... tribe of Indians constitute an exception from this hitherto universal rule ? Is there anything in their character or in their civilization which would enable them, to perform the duties and sustain the responsibilities of a sovereign State in the family of nations ? Bonnycastle says of them that they "were formerly a very powerful and numerous race of people, but the ravages of rum and the smallpox have diminished their numbers very much." He represents them, on the authority of British settlers,...
Seite 237 - Suarez, and is 123 miles north> north-east of Santa Fe. The inhabitants amount to more than 3500. SECTION XVII. PROVINCE OF MERIDA. MERIDA is bounded on the north by Maracaibo ; on the east, by Venezuela ; on the west, by Santa Marta ; and on the south, by Santa Fe and Juan de los Llanos. Its great feature consists in the amazing elevation of a branch from the chain of the Andes, which entirely pervades this province on its western side, rising beyond the lower period of perpetual snow, and to the...
Seite 275 - The sides were of a deep black : the tops of the mountains he observed in this awful situation were six hundred yards beneath him ; and he supposes the bottom of the crater is on a level with the city of Quito. Its edges are always covered with snow ; and flames rise from its surface amid columns of dark smoke. Pichincha is 15,939 feet above the level of the sea. Of all the American volcanoes, Cotopaxi is the most noted. It is...
Seite 205 - Tequendama may be observed a curious variety of climate. The plain of Bogota is covered with crops of wheat, with oaks, elms, and other productions of a temperate region. At the foot of the fall are seen the palms of the equinoctial low-lands.
Seite 219 - ... salted, forms the principal article of commerce and of food. . Wild geese are caught in the lakes by means of an entertaining stratagem. In the places they frequent, the Indians put calabashes or gourds, which constantly floating on the surface of the water, cause no alarm to the geese, and when they are sufficiently accustomed to see them, the Indian gets into the water at a distance from the flock, with a gourd over his head ; he then advances amongst them, and draws them by the legs under...
Seite 292 - ... light tree called balsa. A little boy can carry a log of this wood twelve feet long, and a foot in diameter, with great ease. The rafts are- made larger or smaller, according as they are wanted for fishing, for the coasting trade, or for the rivers ; and they go from Guayaquil as far as Payta in Peru with safety. The logs of which they are made are sixty feet in length, and two or two and a half in diameter, so that a large one of nine logs, is between twenty and twenty-four feet in breadth....
Seite 137 - ... melts, by an increase of heat, into a greenish-yellow slag. It consists, according to Vauquelin, of 45 oxide of columbium, 55 of yttria and oxide of iron. It is found, along with gadolinite, at Ytterby, in Sweden, but is exceedingly rare. YUCATAN; the most easterly state of the Mexican confederacy, in the form of a peninsula, jutting out into the gulf of Mexico, bounded north-west by the gulf of Mexico, south-east by the bay of Honduras, south by Guatemala, south-west by the state of Vera Cruz....
Seite 193 - Carthagena: but while on their passage they met with two vessels bringing supplies ; and returning to St. Sebastian, found their town destroyed by the natives. The whole colony then sailed to the river of Darien, where they attacked and conquered an Indian tribe, and founded a town, which they named Santa Maria del Darien. In the mean time Nicuessa...