Excerpt from The Amazon, and the Atlantic Slopes of South America: A Series of Letters Published in the National Intelligencer and Union Newspapers, Under the Signature of IncaThere, upon that Atlantic slope of South America, in the val ley of the La Plata, and in the valley of the Amazon, Nature in all her ways has been most bountiful.There the vegetable kingdom displays its forces in all their most perfect grandeur, and in all their might, and there, too, the mineral kingdom is most dazzling with its wealth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.