Congressional Serial Set, Issue 3597U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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20 miles Acarabisi accompanying atlas Amacura Amazon Amsterdam appears Arrowsmith Aunama Barima River Black Blaeuw Blue Book Venezuela Bouchenroeder boundary line British Guiana Brown and Sawkins called Canoe and Camp Carib Caribana Caroni cataract chart coast Codazzi collection labeled American colonial map Copy seen course creek of Hilhouse Cruz Cano line Curumo Cuyuni D'Anville Delisle Dixon Dutch east engraved boundaries Essequibo Essequibo river fall Geographical geology of Brit Guayana hand colored hills Imataca inches Indian island itabo Jefferys Jour L. C. NOTE.-Shows labeled American Maps London Mazaruni Merumé miles long Morawhanna Morooca Moruca Mount Everard mountains mouth navigation north bank NOTE.-Shows the Cruz Orinoco Paris Pomeroon published Puruni rapids region Reisen Reports Richard Schomburgk Royal Geogr savanna says Schomburgk's map Schomburgk's official map settlement South America south bank Spanish stream Surinam Thurn Timehri tributaries Tumeremo Venezuela 1896 village Waini western bank Yuruari
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Page 89 - Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute has reached such a stage as to make it now incumbent upon the United States to take measures to determine with sufficient certainty for its justification what is the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.
Page 469 - July. vol. i, p. 463.] Copy seen, LC Popple (Henry). A Map | of the British empire in [ America | with the French and Spanish | Settlements adjacent thereto. | by Henry Popple. | C. Lempriere inv. & del. | B. Baron sculp. | London Engrav'd by Willm Henry Toms & EW Scale, 1733.
Page 502 - Colombia prima or South America, in which it has been attempted to delineate the extent of our knowledge of that continent, extracted chiefly from the original manuscript Maps of His Excellency, the late Chevalier Pinto ; likewise from those of Joao Joaquim da Rocha, Joao da Costa Ferreira, El Padre Francisco Manuel Sobreviela, &c.
Page 273 - ... step necessary, could only be overcome by canals or railroads. In the absence of these, our Indians took their light bark canoes on their heads, and carried them to that part of the river where there were no serious obstacles to its further navigation. We passed next day the rapid Massiwinidui, and several others of less consequence, and encamped in the evening at the foot of the fall Aunama, from whence the path leads to the Cuyuni. The river Aunama joins the Barama just below the fall. The...
Page 213 - River. The Indians showed us the place where he had cultivated sugar, and they told us that he had possessed a schooner and several punts, with which he carried on a timber trade. The Indian, in his expressive language, called the former settlement " The last place of the white man.
Page 73 - With reference to that part of your letter in which you state that Lord J. Russell considers it to be important that the boundaries of British Guiana should be ascertained and agreed upon if possible, and that Mr. Schomburgk's researches in those parts have qualified him in a peculiar manner to be of use, should the services of any person acquainted with the geography of British Guiana be required for fixing the boundaries of British...
Page 398 - NL,.and is bounded on the east by Hudson's Bay; and Pennsylvania lies between 40 and 43° NL, but no bounds are given. The French geographer's drafts, however, were made the basis in 1752 of a map in Postlethwayt's Dictionary of Commerce, which was entitled North America, performed under the patronage of Louis, Duke of Orleans, First Prince of the Blood, by the Sieur tTAnvifte, greatly improved by M.
Page 486 - Reduction of the map of British Guiana compiled from the surveys executed under Her Majesty's commission from 1841 to 1844, and under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society from 1835 to 1839, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, KRE, Ph.D.
Page 262 - This itabbo is quite dry in the longer dry seasons, and is then, of course, impassable ; for walking along its banks is out of the question — a circumstance which has had a good deal to do with the fact that the parts beyond had up till then been almost completely shut off from. the rest of the colony. Even now, though the overhanging trees have been cleared from this part of the waterway, it presents no slight obstacle to the swarm of gold boats which would press through it to the goldfields beyond.
Page 250 - ... right bank, and at a distance of 49 miles from the sea, runs, after a course of only 8 miles, into the Waini, actually at the sea mouth of the latter river. And yet again:2 The Waini system and the Barima are wide and deep rivers, affording water-passage for vessels up to 15 or 16 feet...