Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
During the Years 1799–1804
7 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Part I
Book IX
part of the Plains (Llanos) of Venezuela. Missions of the Caribbees. Last abode on the coast of Nueva Barcelona, Cumana, and Araya. 26. Explanations
Notes to Book IX
Part II
Sketch of a geognostic view of South America, on the North of the River of the Amazons, and on the East of the Meridian of the Sierra Nevada de Merida
1. Configuration of the country. Inequalities of the soil. Chains and groups of mountains. Ridges of partition. Plains or llanos
2. General partition of lands. Direction and inclination of the layers. Relative height of the formations above the level of the ocean
3. Nature of the rocks. Relative age and superposition of the formations primitive, transition, secondary, tertiary, and volcanic soils
Book X
Part II
Sketch of a geognostic view of South America, on the North of the River of the Amazons, and on the East of the Meridian of the Sierra Nevada de Merida
1. Configuration of the country. Inequalities of the soil. Chains and groups of mountains. Ridges of partition. Plains or llanos
2. General partition of lands. Direction and inclination of the layers. Relative height of the formations above the level of the ocean
3. Nature of the rocks. Relative age and superposition of the formations primitive, transition, secondary, tertiary, and volcanic soils
Book X.