Excerpt: ...did they increase the development of the colony, that it was deemed necessary to separate Pg 149 it from New Granada, and form an entirely new administration. POTOSI, IN BOLIVIA.The famous centre of the silver-mining region which supplied the Spanish Empire with bullion for three centuries.From a seventeenth-century engraving. Yet the climate, or some obscure effect of the mingling and cross-breeding of conquerors and conquered, seems to have paralyzed human effort in these colonies of the northern coast. The ...
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Excerpt: ...did they increase the development of the colony, that it was deemed necessary to separate Pg 149 it from New Granada, and form an entirely new administration. POTOSI, IN BOLIVIA.The famous centre of the silver-mining region which supplied the Spanish Empire with bullion for three centuries.From a seventeenth-century engraving. Yet the climate, or some obscure effect of the mingling and cross-breeding of conquerors and conquered, seems to have paralyzed human effort in these colonies of the northern coast. The land was something of an earthly paradise, and men were tempted to doze in it rather than to develop its resources. The cacao of Venezuela takes first place in the markets of the world, and has done so since its initial cultivation there; but not one-tenth of the area available for the growth of the bean has ever been utilized. Caracas itself, earthquake shaken from time to time, was never
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