New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-26
AMAZONIA.

scientific person most imaginative gentleman. We
saw in TIL. National Irterencer Of Saturday last, long
communication from him addressed TO Mr.. j. b. Pryor,
Who had asked his views on the objects Of the Mem
pb Convention" with the purpose Of laying them be-
fore that body at its meeting in June. Mr. Maury lays
himself oct at full length on what he calls Ammonia
He seems TO understand that the gentlemen who held
the Commercial Convention at Baltimore last winter and
adjourned thence to meet at Memphis next month"; not
Only aim at dyertiDg existing trade to Southern ports
but are aiming at the discovery of new fields wherein
to plow out the ingOs and pearls of fresh commercial
0oTies This idea inspires Mr. Maury and he describes
the prod1aty with which Nature has poured treasures
into "Amazonia" in the most glowing His en-
thusiasm over AmazOnia" is well nigh boundless. He
expresses his utter establishment that such country
! could have been so long ignored by all creation. He
/ Gays:
THAT the men Of the age the statesmen Of Europe and
America the spirit Of colonial enterprise and adventure
which marks the times, should all have ignored sucn
country tuch soil and such climates with such capacl
hereafter be regarded as the greatest Of wonders
Mr Naury expatistes largely upon the travels OF
"Young Sailor Richards" who it seems has been down
TO those diegins, and who there great many as
tonishng sights and among them river that sometimes
runs up stream and sometimes down unlike the IOmbg-
bee) and according to Mr. Richards and Mr. MauTy has
both It's head ard its tail in the Lake Tticaca. Beside
This Young Richards saw animals on the hand,
tame" and on the other " Wild So SAYS Mr. Msury'
He looked upon the Andes aud saw above. while he
found il melting hot below there too he ouAd trees of
"bread" and "nik and nuts that could be used either
as dessert or gas-ppe Mr. Richards avOwed to the
Lieutenant that he was quite taken aback at the prod
eaiy of Nature in Amazonia and wondered the coun-
try had never been occupied See how Mr. Maury glOws
over The Young Sailor Richards
He had seen the sun high standing the north,
and casting shadows to the south He had been those
stormy and distant latudes where daylight was but the
Longest meteor Of long night He had seen river that
turns about at times and runs up stream lie had taken IN
at one the vegetation the three zones and there
fore wondering which Of all these things appeared TO him
the most curious said TO him Pray, Mr. Richards. what
during this interesting trip Of yours in the valley Of the
Amazon struck you with the most force as being he most
curious ihrg or renaIkaDe circumstance mel WIN IN al
your travtkF
country that OF the Amazon should in the middle OF the
nineteenth century be a wilderness.
What commentary l thank that noble young tar
with al my heart for this most glorious description OF
glorious country. Language OF er force and compass
or Of more eloqueDce, is not 60 b. found anyFh
Mr Maury then proceeds to say that this is the
try TO which be invites the Convention
Now We like the suggestion Let the Memphis peO-
rle whopropose universal reyou ION in trade aud COM
merce try their hand on AmazOnia" Here is a first
rate chance for them make beginning and scare up
trade thst now goes begging If half Of Mr. Maurys
Swans should turn out to be real aud not geese
the Memphis men would find good picking for the rest of
their lives in navigating; the streams he describes
with the soft enthusiasm of visionary. coming from
the Chickasaw Bluffs" Pittsburg," and elsewhere
up and down the Mississippi and Ohio on the hand
and from TabatiDga," Nsuta" and other out of the
wsy places on the other. We recommend the Chieka-
] IA fha
convention "AmazOnia" is an immense country be-
yond all manner of doubt, and they grow all manner of
products on the sides of the Andes from the tropical
fruits at the base the chen and of Lapland az
! their tops And We done how the Memphis Con-
yention could do better than 90 into the chen and
moss, ard pineapple and banana trade. There is
tanly vast opening for l., for the mouth OF the ANA
zon not less than hundred miles wide and might
add, is hot in proportion Let the reyOlutiOnists of
Memphis of jackets and 60 ahead n,o Amazonii"
Ard don't let them consider that this is any picayune
business either We have Mr. Maury's authority for
sayDgthst AmazOnia is alone capable Of sustain
ing the entire present population of the world" The
idea may well make our Memphis friends prick up their
ears.
Seriously, We are impatient az this gable and stru.
manner Of treating such topics 1t is just the spread
\ Of the peacoeks tail Mr. Maury is an enthusiastic
gentleman who has done service by bis wind and
current charts But really il seems 10 US that be is
I giving vent on paper too much Of the breezy
modify What this country wants is not Indictments
TO trade up and down tie Amazon but to develop aud
improve and perfect internal resources. With
virgin soil within own limits capable Of producing,
| snd which dses Row produce all that Amazonis" can
oer what need have seek, through the pestien-
ts ungts and torrd heats Of the Amazon the wealth
/ We have, or can have, At home Mr.. Maury need not
wonder that that country > Yet waste, if the
Sailor Boy Richards does. The great river on which
he dates with such fervent fancy Poursts into
the ocean on the Equator, and it runs for almost 500
miles Of It's course, without getting FIVE degrees away
| from that line. vertical forever bAzes down
uVon it's bosom, making its atmosphere ike that Of
furnace seven times heated MAsms is generated over
the oceans Of rank vegetation, the seaming marshes
that border IT, and spreads disease and dean wthero-
ever its exhaaiOns are foated By the wind The air
is everywhere laden with nOxous vspOrs fatal life
Man gasps for breath amid exhAastiEg heats and IN
hAes il but TO expire from its poisOns Is it any EOn-
des that such a country should not be the FIRST or
among the 6rst 10 which American enterprise has
turned its attention
/ We have excellent authority for saying that the
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