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Excerpt from Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys: Across the Pampas and Among the Andes Had we known the nature of the different countries, it Would have been deemed im prudent -to have forwarded to them expen sive machinery, to have given liberal sala ries to every individual connected with'the Speculation, to have invited the Natives to share the profits, to have intrusted the Capi tal to solitary individuals, 8m. Still had the Foundation been good, the Building was nobly planned, and it was undeniably the act and' the invention of a country teeming with energy, enterprise, liberality, nusus pecting confidence, and capital. 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.