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Beadle's monthly, December, 1866.
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29 January 2017
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Journal
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English
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1866-12
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New York : Beadle and Company
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Dime Novel and Popular Literature
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Popular literature
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‘. BEADLE’S MONTHLY. DECEMBER, 1866. as :93‘. .?=M-='-. HE recent visit of Professor Agassiz and corps of assistants to the Valley’ afntilge Amazon has directed especial at- coumf '10‘ the great .tropical.river and vi ‘t “hxch 1t tlralns. Prior to this 5! , me had known the stream only as one of several vast arteries of the south-V :31‘: fotltinent; but of the countries which too) Ftigltered and threaded we knew only warm‘ 0- Not that exploration was the $13. Of the Orinoco, R10 de la Plata, Pam“ ocantms, the St. ‘Francisco, the mercigyl $10., for the sections made com- not 01113 accessible by these waters were . Y well settled, but were, many slnceibrought into close commercial tr“; <;n:w1tl1.tl11s country. Still, it was A 2 .11 is now true, that of the South mencan republics we have but a meager popular knowledge; and to-day nine- tLu‘50f$ people know less of New Grenada, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Boli-- via, Buenos Ayres, Paraguay, Uruguay, than of any minor state in Europe. With Brazil and Chili we are more familiar, owing to their exceeding great commer-- cial importance; but, of these, it must also be added, we have only a general impression, gained from newspaper cor- respondence rather than from books and reports. That this is the case is to bet regretted, since, from the direction now" being given to our fast-spreading com- merce, it is evident that, with Brazil, in particular, we are to assume close and important relations. The United States is rapidly resuming the sway on the seas arrested by the rebellion and British cruisers, and another decade promises to transfer the control of the carrying-trade with the East and West Indies, Chin'a",” the Pacific Islands and South America Entered according to Act or Congress, in the year 1866, by Bmnnx AND Comrnrtr, in the Clerk's Omce or the District Court for the Southern District of New York. VOL. II.-30. ‘av’? , qwtes .:..x:a.L-....t-xmem. 4'--mu
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