[2] Vide New York “World,” of Aug. 5th, 1866.
[3] Author of “Brazil and the Brazilians.”
[4] “Such is the state to which colonial politics and mal-administration have during three centuries reduced a country which, for natural wealth, may vie with all that is most wonderful on earth.”
Humboldt, Travels, vol. iii., c. 27.
[5] The late discoveries made in Venezuelian Guiana prove that the statements of Sir Walter Raleigh and other adventurers of his time were not without foundation, as gold of the finest quality and in the greatest abundance, is now gathered over an extent of territory surpassing in richness and natural resources the famous California and Australia placers.
[6] “Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America.”, by Edward Sullivan, Esq. London, 1852.
[7] Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America.
[8] The writer is mistaken; the Saddle stands four or five miles east of this point, which is called La Cumbre, or the Summit.
[9] Centigrade thermom.
[10] Humboldt—Travels.