Travels in the Republic of Colombia : in the years 1822 and 1823

Amazing - I have just skimmed it.... appears that great contrasts were as much a part then as now. Am reading section of when the author arrives in Bogota and goes to visit the Tequendema falls. Has scattered references to Humboldt. He passes through Somondoco, Villeta, others..

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Guatavita is there - many of the words have been altered.. I am guessing when it was scanned in? Look at page/section 76.

"Towards noon, quitting the plain, in which
our route hitherto lay, I approached the gra-
nite mountains commanding it. Sesquila the
last village of the plain of Bogota, on this side, is
situated at a short distance from tlie lake of Gua-



76 TRAVELS IN THE

tavita. I found the air very sharp upon the Para-
mo de Chocotan, the wind blowing- there with as
much violence as on the sea-shore. Avery small
but cold rain, froze our faces and hands. The
soil of Chocotan is of a very dark colour ; the land
is undulating like that of downs, and the grass
is so fine, that the foot-steps of the traveller, are
effaced almost as quickly as in the sands of an
African desert."

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