Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Release : 2013-09
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, During the Years 1799-1804 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, During the Years 1799-1804 write by Alexander von Humboldt. This book was released on 2013-09. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, During the Years 1799-1804 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...estimated, in 1796, at one million or 1,200,000 piasters: it is now thought that the expence would amount to more than one million and a half. The productions which might annually pass the canal have been estimated at 75,000 from the Havannah to Matanzas, and less regularly from the Havannah to Mariel. The government granted to Don Juan O-Farrill (March 24th, 1819), a privilege on the barcos de vapor. cases of sugar, 25,000 arrobas of coffee, and 8000 bocoyes of molasses and rum. According to the first project, that of 1796, it was intended to link the canal with the small river of Guines, to be brought from the Ingenio de la Holanda towards Quibican, three leagues south of Bejucal and Santa Rosa. This idea is now relinquished, the Rio de los Guines losing its waters towards the east in the irrigation of the savannahs of Hato de Guanamon. Instead of leading the canal on the east of the Barrio del Cerro, and on the south of the fort of Atares, in the bay of the Havannah, it was proposed at first to make use of the bed of the Chorrera or Rio Armendaris, from Calabazal to the Husillo, and then of the Zanja Real, not only to convey the boats to the centre of the a-rrabales 8and of the city of the Havannah, but also to furnish water to the fountains, which want to be supplied during three months of the year. I visited several times, with MM. Lemaur, the plains by which this line of navigation is meant to pass. The utility of the project is incontestible, if in the time of great drought a suflicient quantity of water can be ' brought to the point of partition. At the Havannah, as in every place where ' Oflicial pieces of the Commision para elfomento de la Iala de Cuba, 1799, and manuscript notes of M. Bauduy. commerce and the wealth it...