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Excerpt from The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 32: July-October, 1863 The species of Cinchona are very unequally distributed in the forests on the eastern side of the Andes, from the extreme north of South America, in latitude 11 N where they occur on the mountains of Santa Martha, to the forests of Bolivia, as far S. As 19 S. Speaking generally, the trees grow at an elevation of from 4000 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.