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TWELVE VIEWS IN THE INTERIOR OF GUIANA: with 

 Descriptive Letter-Press. 



By ROBERT H. SCHOMBURGK, Esq. 



Dedicated, by express permission, to His Grace The Duke of Devonshire. 



The Expedition, in the progress of which these Views were taken, was carried 

 on under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society, and, partly, at the ex- 

 pense of Her Majesty's Government. It occupied the years 1835 to 1839 ; during 

 which period, not only the colony of British Guiana, but also the adjacent territo- 

 ries of Venezuela, Brazil, and Surinam were more or less explored. 



During the latter part of the Expedition, the Author connected his researches 

 with those of Alexander von Humboldt, the greatest traveller of his own, or any 

 other time. The travels of both extended as far as Esmeralda; Baron Humboldt, 

 reached this point from the west, by ascending the river Orinoco, in the year 1800; 

 Mr. Schomburgk from the east, by the Essequibo and the Sierra Pacaraima. The 

 Views were taken at the most picturesque spots, many of which were never before 

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 Mr. Bentley, an artist of established eminence, preparatory to being lithographed 

 by another artist of equal reputation in his profession. 



The Botanist and Geologist will be alike interested in a series of drawings, which 

 exhibits many striking wonders in the geology and botany of Guiana — a colony 

 enriched by the most extraordinary vegetation ; as an example of which, it is only 

 necessary to mention the gigantic Victoria Regia, an aquatic plant, of which the 

 leaf measures six feet and a half in length, discovered, during the expedition, on 

 the River Berbice. 



The numerous representations of ethnographical objects will interest the student 

 in that department of science. 



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I CONES PLANTARUM ; or, Figures, with brief descriptive Charac- 

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Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H. &c. 



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