Excerpt from Alto Velo Island: Report of the Secretary of State on the Claim of Patterson and Murguiendo, With a Further Argument of the Claimants Altavela is a small desert cay, lying, according to some charts, more than five leagues, and, by the map of this island published by order of the govern ment, somewhat less than that distance, to the southward of that border belt' which has been completely desolated by the wars between the Dominican and Haytien Republics. Neither government permits the citizens of the other to live on this frontier, and a long margin of the mainland nearest to Altavela cay is a depopulated waste; without settled inhabitants; without cultivation, and, in point of actual fact, without a government. 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.