Excerpt from Colombia: Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultural, Commercial, and Political Account of That Country The whole land we have been describing, sepas rates the waters which flow to the Orinoco from those which run into the immense Lake of Mara caibo and the Caribbean Sea. It presents rather temperate than hot climates; and it is looked up. On in the country, notwithstanding the distance of more than a hundred leagues, as a prolongation of the metalliferous soil of Pamplona. 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.