Book excerpt: Excerpt from A View of South America and Mexico, Vol. 2: Comprising Their History, the Political Condition, Geography, Agriculture, Commerce, &C. Of the Republics of Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Peru, the United Provinces of South America and Chili The republic of Colombia comprises an extent of country, embracing 220 or 1320 miles of longitude, stre from the mouth of Oronoco, to the western extremity of the thlnus of Panama; and of 18° or 1080 miles of latitude, extending llio to the north, and 6} to the south of the equator, calculating from Cape la Vela to the southern extremity of the republic. This vast territory is bounded north and east b the Atlantic ocean, and by the territories of Guiana; west by e republic of Guatemala, or central Pacific ocean and south by the re ublic of Peru, and the river comprised within the the most interesting portions of the globe. Bordering on two oceans, its waters are unrivalled; it embraces a large portion of the immense valley of the Amazon, with the whole of the great vallies of the Oronoco and Magdalena, and is traversed by some of the loftiest mountains in the world. It possesses every diver sity of soil and climate, unrivalled commercial'adv and mineral treasures, which present the most powerful slim us, and promise the greatest reward to the industry and enterprise of ci vilized man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.