tailieunhanh - BOHN'S SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. HUMBOLDT'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE VOLUME 3. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA DURING THE YEARS 1799-1804

I shall commence this chapter by a description of Spanish Guiana (Provincia de la Guyana), which is a part of the ancient Capitania general of Caracas. Since the end of the sixteenth century three towns have successively borne the name of St. Thomas of Guiana. The first was situated opposite to the island of Faxardo, at the confluence of the Carony and the Orinoco, and was destroyed* by the Dutch, under the command of Captain Adrian Janson, in 1579. (* The first of the voyages undertaken at Raleigh's expense was in 1595; the second, that of Laurence Keymis, in. | BOHN S SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY. HUMBOLDT S PERSONAL NARRATIVE VOLUME 3. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF AMERICA DURING THE YEARS 1799-1804 BY ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT AND AIME BONPLAND. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT AND EDITED BY THOMASINA ROSS. IN THREE VOLUMES VOLUME 3. LONDON. GEORGE BELL SONS. 1908. LONDON PORTUGAL STREET LINCOLN S INN. CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL AND CO. NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN CO. BOMBAY . WHEELER AND CO. The longitudes mentioned in the text refer always to the meridian of the Observatory of Paris. The real is about 6 1 2 English pence. The agrarian measure called caballeria is eighteen cordels each cordel includes twenty-four varas or 432 square varas consequently as 1 vara . according to Rodriguez a caballeria is 186 624 square varas or 130 118 square metres or thirty-two and two-tenths English acres. 20 leagues to a degree. 5000 varas 4150 metres. 3403 square toises hectare. An acre 4044 square metres. Five hundred acres fifteen and a half caballerias. Sugar-houses are thought to be very considerable that yield 2000 cases annually or 32 000 arrobas nearly 368 000 kilogrammes. An arroba of 25 Spanish pounds kilogrammes. A quintal kilogrammes. A tarea of wood one hundred and sixty cubic feet. VOLUME 3. CONTENTS. CHAPTER . SPANISH GUIANA. ANGOSTURA. PALM-INHABITING TRIBES. MISSIONS OF THE CAPUCHINS. THE LAGUNA PARIME. EL DORADO. LEGENDARY TALES OF THE EARLY VOYAGERS. CHAPTER . THE LLANOS DEL PAO OR EASTERN PART OF THE PLAINS OF VENEZUELA. MISSIONS OF THE CARIBS. LAST VISIT TO THE COAST OF NUEVA BARCELONA CUMANA AND ARAYA. CHAPTER . POLITICAL STATE OF THE PROVINCES OF VENEZUELA. EXTENT OF TERRITORY. POPULATION. NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. EXTERNAL TRADE. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT PROVINCES COMPRISING THE REPUBLIC OF COLUMBIA. CHAPTER . PASSAGE FROM THE COAST OF VENEZUELA TO THE HAVANA. GENERAL VIEW OF THE POPULATION OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS COMPARED WITH THE

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