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 211 - A Castilla ya Leon, Nuevo mundo dio Colon. (To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a new world...
Seite 172 - ... 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 299 - 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 261 - 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 212 - ... Spanish crown extensive grants in Guatimala and Cundinamarca. Ojeda had the country from Cape de la Vela to the Gulf of Uraba, or Gulf of Darien, included in his charter, which tract was to be styled New Andalusia ; and Nicuessa was appointed to govern from the Gulf of Darien to Cape Gracias a Dios ; and they left Hispaniola in the latter end of the year 1510, to assume the functions assigned to them. Soon after the arrival of Ojeda at Carthagena, (then called Caramari by the Indians), he imprudently...
Seite 168 - 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 279 - It is seated on a large plain, 5905 feet above the level of the sea, having an uninterrupted prospect to the north, and a mountain named M, from its resemblance to that letter, on the east. The west side of this plain is moderately elevated, and is covered, as well as the mountain, with trees. On the summit of M is a convent, near which issues a river, that runs rapidly through the city, and serves to cleanse it of filth. This river has two bridges, one of stone and the other of wood, erected over...
Seite 227 - 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 228 - ... It may not be out of place here to narrate the tradition belonging to this mighty fall. " In ancient days, when the sun alone supplied light to the earth, and the people of Bogota were barbarians, an old man suddenly appeared amongst them from the East, with long garments and a white flowing beard. This was Bochica. He instructed them in agriculture, &c.; and with him came a woman, who, as well as himself, had three names, one of which was Chia; she was very beautiful, very malevolent, and overturned...
Seite 316 - ... 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....