. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon . > ^-Jv-fe. PrVemaazL del. aiVARO. Wa.^ner IMc.Cm^aiis Iith Phila. COUNT CASTE LNAU. 177 From its mountains you may dig silver, iron, coal, copper, quicksilver,zinc, and tin; from the sands of its tributaries you may wash o-old, dia-monds, and precious stones; from its forests you may gather drugs ofvirtues the most rare, spices of aroma the most exquisite, gums and resinsof the most varied and useful properties, dyes of hues the most brilliant,with cabinet and bu
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. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon : made under direction of the Navy Department by Wm. Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon . > ^-Jv-fe. PrVemaazL del. aiVARO. Wa.^ner IMc.Cm^aiis Iith Phila. COUNT CASTE LNAU. 177 From its mountains you may dig silver, iron, coal, copper, quicksilver, zinc, and tin; from the sands of its tributaries you may wash o-old, dia-monds, and precious stones; from its forests you may gather drugs ofvirtues the most rare, spices of aroma the most exquisite, gums and resinsof the most varied and useful properties, dyes of hues the most brilliant, with cabinet and building-woods of the finest polish and most enduringtexture. Its climate is an everlasting summer, and its harvest perennial. Itranslate from a book of travels in these countries, by Count Castelnau, (received since my return to the United States, ) an account of thecapacities of some of the southern portions of this vast water-shed: The productions of the country are exceedingly various. The sugar-cane, ^ of which the crop is gathered at the end of eight months f^orathe time of planting, forms the chief source of wealth of the provinceof Ce