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GUYOT, ARNOLD HENRY. 



hand, slightly decreased, the low price of colo- 

 nial produce, etc., abroad, crippling somewhat 

 the purchasing capability of the people at large, 

 anticipating which merchants established in 

 Guatemala ordered a smaller amount of goods 

 from abroad. 



The leading export articles in 1883 were : 

 Coffee, $4,848,833 worth; skins, $160,781; 

 brown soft sugar and panetela, $223,136; the 

 latter is a dark loaf-sugar; indigo, $16,881; 

 horse-hair, $31,731; India rubber, $224,519; 

 and specie, $145,516. 



Another change in tariff marked the year 

 1884, reducing the import duty by one half on 

 the following articles: Aromatic waters, in- 

 cluding Florida and lavender; almonds, in 

 shell and shelled; cloves, cinnamon of all 

 classes, caraways, tinned edibles, chinaware 

 of all kinds, stearine, as candles and in bulk ; 

 raisins, figs, and other dried fruits; storax 

 gum, soap of all classes, fideos, macaroni, mai- 

 zena, and other similar products of flour and 

 corn ; pepper, whole and ground ; sago and 

 tapioca. 



Maritime Movement. The number of sea-going 

 vessels that entered Guatemala's 'ports in 1883 

 was 220. 



Banking. The Bank of Guatemala cleared a 

 profit of about 20 per cent, during the last six 

 months of 1883. 



CUYOT, ARNOLD HENRY, an American geog- 



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ARNOLD IIENKY GUYOT. 



rapher, born in Neufchatel, Switzerland, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1807; died in Princeton, N. J., 

 Feb. 8, 1884. His early education was ob- 

 tained at the college in his native place, 



whence he went to the gymnasiums in Stutt- 

 gart and Carlsruhe. At this latter city he 

 formed an intimate acquaintance with Prof. 

 Louis Agassiz, which resulted in a life-long 

 friendship, and an ardent love for natural sci- 

 ence. Guyot pursued the study of theology 

 for three years in Neufchatel and Berlin, but 

 afterward devoted himself exclusively to sci- 

 entific investigation. He resided five years in 

 Paris, and made summer excursions, in the in- 

 terests of his favorite pursuits, through Bel- 

 gium, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Holland. 

 He was the first to observe the laminated struct- 

 ure of ice in the glaciers, a discovery that was 

 confirmed by Agassiz, Forbes, and others. He 

 next investigated the curious distribution ot 

 erratic bowlders. The publication of Guyot's 

 work on this topic, with full details, was pre- 

 vented by political disturbance's, and also by 

 his departure from Switzerland. From 1839 

 to 1848 he did excellent service to the cause of 

 science, as Professor of History and Physical 

 Geography in the Neufchatel Academy. In 

 1848 he came to the United States, and took 

 up his residence in Cambridge, Mass. While 

 here, he delivered scientific lectures on the re- 

 lation between physical geography and history. 

 These lectures, which were in French, and 

 were subsequently translated, were published 

 in a volume entitled " Earth and Man." One 

 noteworthy feature of Guyot's lectures was 

 his clear and settled conviction as 

 to the truth and authority of the 

 Scriptures. He also lectured in the 

 Massachusetts Normal Schools, and 

 was employed by the Smithsonian 

 Institution to organize and arrange 

 a system of meteorological obser- 

 vations. Among the valuable re- 

 sults of his work at this time was 

 the determination of the exact height 

 of Mount Washington (1851), and of 

 some of the Green Mountains (1857). 

 In 1855 Guyot was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Geology and Physical Ge- 

 ography in the College of New 

 Jersey, at Princeton, in which chair 

 he remained, and was senior pro- 

 fessor at the time of his death. He 

 was founder of the museum at 

 Princeton, which is one of the best 

 of its kind in the United States, and 

 many of its specimens were collect- 

 ed and arranged by his o\\ n hands. 

 Between 1866 and 1873, Prof. Guyot 

 prepared a series of geographies that 

 have been very largely used in the 

 public schools. At the Vienna In- 

 ternational Exhibition he received 

 a medal for his geographical works; 

 and at the Evangelical Alliance Con- 

 ference, held in New York in Oc- 

 tober, 1873, he read a valuable paper on 

 " Cosmogony and the Bible ; or. the Biblical 

 Account of Creation in the Light of Modern 

 Science." This paper was published with 





