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Rh [Further on.] “All that is colossal and grand in Nature has been formed in Northern countries.”—1. Epoq., 255. “It is in our Northern regions that living nature has risen to the largest dimensions.”— Ib. 263.

Amer. Vesp., 115. “Here the sky and the air are seldom darkened by clouds; the days are almost always clear.”

See Herrera, Dec. 1, L. 10, chap. 8. “When Yucatan was discovered, an abundance of wax and honey was found.”—And ib. ch. 9. “There are found hornets and bees, although the latter are smaller, and sting with more fury.” — Dec. 2, L. 3, ch. 1.

See Clavigero, 107. On the frontier of Gruayaquil there are found bees, which accumulate and make honey in the hollows of trees; they are larger than flies; the wax and the honey they make are red, and although it tastes well, it is not the same as in Castille.” Herr. 5, 10, 10.

“Several Indians have told us that they have seen on the banks of the river Coari, in the up-land, an open plain, flies, and a number of horned animals, objects which they had not seen before, and which prove that the sources of these rivers water a country adjoining the Spanish colonies of Upper Peru.”

“That there should be devised a way to bring many negroes from Gruinea, as the labor of one negro was worth more than that of four Indians.”—Herrera, (&c.)

N. B.—In the note to page 62, the Translator allowed himself some slight liberty to avoid indelicate language.