Book/Printed Material Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the route from Caracas to Bogotá; and an appendix.
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- Date: 1827
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Image 6 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/notesoncolombiatOObach- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... NOTES- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... NOTES m it TAKEN IN THE YEARS 1822-3. WITH AN ITINERARY OF THE ROUTE CARACAS TO BOGOTA AN APPENDIX. /Wks/Lf* l\ dtv*^* /v ^-Aje-^ BY AN OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fourth day of De- (L. S.) cember, in the fifty -first year of the Independence of the United States of...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 17 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... PREFACE. The arrangement of the following Notes, com- menced to beguile some tedious hours, and to com- ply with the wishes of a brother, was continued and drawn to a conclusion by...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... VI PREFACE. on the spot and the reflections are those which naturally suggested themselves. If it be asked, why, after riding posthaste through a country, and enjoying so few advantages, I have...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Page, Voyage— -La Guayra Yellow Fever— Commercial regu- lations. 9 CHAPTER II. Road from La Guayra to Caracas Earthquakes— Sym- pathy of the United States. 30 CHAPTER III. The...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... Vlll CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. Page- Leave Valencia— Carabobo—- General Paez— -Barqui- semeto— Colonel Manreky Tocuyo— Agua Obispos Santa- Ana Truxillo. .142 CHAPTER IX. Leave Truxillo— Farm-house Valeria Mendoza Ti- mothes Fiesta of...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... OTES ON COLOMBIA CHAPTER, L Voyage— la guayra yellow fever-^-commercial regulations. THE opportunity of accompanying a citizen of the United States, whose devotion to the cause of South American Independence had been...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 10 NOTES ON COLOMBIA. Colombians, besides, had become so confident as to the result of the conflict, as no longer to seek for or desire foreign aid; and the composition of the...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... VOYAGE. 11 directed, when suddenly a crash arrested the atten- tion of all on board. The lashings of the block of the main brace had parted, and the huge yard swung round,...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... NOTES ON COLOMBIA*. feeling of apprehension so necessary to the sublime never entered my mind. While gazing on the well- defined circle which encompassed our ship as its centre, I in vain...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. IS water into the air at least fifty feet high. It was this appearance in nature which suggested to Mont- golfier the idea of his hydraulic ram. October 18th. We...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 14} NOTES ON COLOMBIA. prominent by its conical summit of dazzling bright- ness. Previous to 1812, M. de Humboldt ascertained the height of the look-out on the summit of the cape to...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. 15 weigh every eight or ten days; open to all the pre- valent winds, and a heavy surf, which is most dan- gerous in a calm. This was the case...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 16 NOTES ON COLOMBIA. men and trunks are indiscriminately raised upon their brawny shoulders, and are carried through the surf to the shore. As this is done in the twink- ling of...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. 17 and vegetables are sold by women squatting in rows on the stone pavement, each having her little store displayed before her. The meats are protected from the sun by...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 18 NOTES ON COLOMBIA, concluding cup of coffee finished the eating for the day, suppers in so hot a climate being considered unwholesome, as well as inimical to tranquil sleep, so difficult...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. 19 ing the egg9, deposited under the skin by an insect called chigre or niguas. October 20th. Dined with the American consul at Maiquitia, a small village about half a...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... SO NOTES ON COLOMBIA. The mean temperature of the year is 8S° Fahr Do. Hot season 84*° Do. Cold season 74° Maximum 95° Minimum 70° Rain is by no means frequent, but...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. 2i houses and offices connected with the revenue are convenient to this gate; and directly in front of it is the office of the American consul, the stripes wav- ing...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 2% NOTES ON COLOMBIA. and out, white-washed and roofed with burnt earthen tiles. Those of the better order have bal- conies in front, projecting from the second story, sheltered from the sun...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... LA GUAYRA. S timore. This house is supported by strangers whom commerce carries to the port. The habits of the Spaniard, his reserve in what relates to domestic concerns, render him averse...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... S4 NOTES ON COLOMBIA It is only in the present year that Mr. Lowry* has received the less equivocal appointment of con- sul, which, at the same time that it renders him...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... YELLOW FEVER. 5 not the thermometer incessantly urged the propriety of keeping cool. The adverse arguments were equal- ly satisfactory. One side says a disease is unknown among us till foreign vessels...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 26 NOTES ON COLOMBIA. wholly neglected, under the expectation of disco- vering mines. The want of success in this, was the cause of the glaring neglect, this portion of Ame rica experienced...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. 27 The company soon engaged in the contraband, which they had been created to destroy. The abuse becoming glaring, in 1778? the regulation called of free commerce, was put in...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of Notes on Colombia, taken in the years 1822-3. With an itinerary of the ... 28 NOTES ON COLOMBIA. sort, except Gaudaloupe, (the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish possessions being occupied by the Eng- lish,) it became necessary that all vessels going to Jamaica, Cura§oa or Trinidad, should...- Contributor: Bache, Richard - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827