Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-27

may be considered include those Of all the habitab
portions OF the globe.
Here one seated at the foot of mountain and sur
rounded with the luscious fruits Of the tropics may,
ing his eye up towards the peak above him
take in at one view the whole range Of the vegetable
gammut Beginning with the Chremoya the pines apple
the orange and the VANILLA they their fragrance
around he passes through he ascends groves Of
olive and the vine the peach and the pear until finally
having completed the vegetable notation in the order
production through the Torrd and the Temperate zones
reaches the Frg and with its cap of snow he finds the
summit crowned with the and the chens Of the
Polar regions.
About onehalf of Bolivia is in the valley of the ANA
zon one-ourth in the valley of the La Plata and the
rest which is not desert mountain is in the valley of
Lake Ttcaca that inland basin in which the Incas and
civilization of Peru had their origin.
| will in my next speak of Bolivia and her Amazoman
watershed INCA
Bolivia has but seaport on the Pacific; that is CO.
ba, open roadstead, and miserable village at The
head Of the great desert of Atacama The land trens-
poraon between this port and the agricultural districts
Of the Republic is too rough too tedious and too expen-
sive to admit of its becoming commercial enpo-
rum The direction in which Bolivia looks for an outlet
to market for her produce along her naygabe water
that empty into the Amazon and then down that
the sea- where the winds and the currents are
such to require that produce pass by our DOORS
Bolivia understands this and her President has
the most earnest desire to draw closely the bonds of
friendship, commerce. and navigation which are destined
to bind his country to this.
Bolivia, we have seen, navgable streams that
tributary both to the Amazon and the La Plata The
air of heaven and the glad of the earth we're
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Use without exhaustion is the only condition annexed
the laws Of the air and being considered
as the common property of the world.
Have not therefore Bolivia and the other indie
pendent nations that navigabe streams emptying
into the Amazon the La Plata but which do not its
mouth, the right to follow and to "use without exhaus
| ton each its own navgabe waters to the sea And
does not the 'pocy of commerce require the enforce
ment of that right, far it any all of
these eight upland nations which may wish to trade with
and the rest of the world through those natural chan
nels and commercial highways?
| This is one of the questions that purpose to
slider; but, before showing who it is that by ia
panese policy here at doors is shutting
from the finest portions Of the world, wish show that
the free navigation of the Amazon is abstraction
but that there there in actual existence all the
elements of profitable, large and growing commerce,
and that therefore the question of practical mpor
lance will speak Of the productions of this interest
ng-I had almost said classc--land
In the Puma country of Bolivia we find the llama, the
yicuna, and the alpaca Immense iocks of sheep feed
in its pastures and lie down upon its hills.
My friend Lieut. Gibbon who about two years ago
sent with Lieut.. Herndon by the Navy Department to
explore the Amazon from its its mouth writes
that it is woogrowing country, that immense focks of
sheep tended there indeed he says the country is
over populated.
Speaking few weeks since with Northern manufac-
turer upon this subject, he informed that he had then
just bought 100000 worth of this Puma WOOL which,
instead of coming down the Amazon, in sight of which
almost it clipped, the japanese policy that keeps the
mouth of that river closed had compelled to 60 up into
the region of the clouds in order that it might cross the
Andes and reach the free waters of the Pacific It's voy
age then around Cape Horn to Boston.
Chuquisaca the city of silver" is situated al
ready stated on the sdivde between the Amazon and
the La Plata. On side the waters of the Pcamago
flow SOUTH the other those of the Madeira flow north
on their way to the " king of rivers
Near by Chuquisaca is Potosi Here pass from the
regions gold and diamonds those of quicksilver and
silver.
Since the discovery of the mines Of Potos there have
been extracted from them sixteen hundred millions of
dollars. The vein is said be rich now as ever il
out is not worked Tor the want OF mechanical
FORCE such steam and the facilities of commerce alone
can give.
Il is from the Atlantic slopes of Bolivia that we get the
bark for the manufacture of qunne The cinchona or
Peruvian bark is called is gathered there on those
navgabe waercourses Of the Atlantic and taken thence
the backs of sheep and asses hundred miles
the Andes to the Pacific.
Two million dollars worth Of this bark was gathered
there in the last year Does not this afford commercial
basis sufficient to support steam navigation up the ANA
to Bolivia? Bolivia has there thrifty and indus
trious population Of million and half whose CONNER
cal wants would be supplied by this route One Of
her cities Potos has been supplied with water at the
cost Of $780, 600 to construct the works Can COM
with such people be abstraction The produc
lions Of the eastern slopes Of Bolivia thus described
| by Castenau:
The productions Of the country in great variety.
Sugar cane, which is gathered eight months after plant
| ing, is the staple Of the province of Circado.
Coffee successfully cultivated in this province well
as in that Of Chiquos yields fruit in two years after
being planted, requiring but the ghtest care.
The cacao recently introduced into these two provin-
| ces, bears in three or four years at most.
The amarind, which succeeds in the localities,
but especially in the country Of Chquitos requires five
| years.
Cotton yields annual crops there are two Species
white and the yellow
Tobacco grows, to speak, without cultivation in the
province Of ValeGrande in which il is the principal
| tice Of trade
Indigo of which there are three cultivated species and
one wild, is equally abundant
Maize rpens in three months without regard to sea-
IL Is cultivated particularly in the