NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO 
fellow-creatures, that M. Boussingault, 
during a residence of some years in Colom- 
bia, had investigated, and finally traced, the 
origin of that acte disease so univer- 
sal in many parts of Grenada, called the 
“ Goitre,” or Bronchocele, and by the in- 
habitants Cofo. In a memoir published at 
Bogata, he has produced demonstrative 
evidence that none of the causes hitherto 
assigned are satisfactory, or applicable to 
all the circumstances of climate under 
which this disease is developed, while that 
which he assigns, answers to the full, in 
every case of its occurrence. 
whether arising from the elevation of their 
Sources, or from the mixture of noxious 
ingredients. I shall not enter into the 
proofs and details of this discovery, because 
it may, ere this, have been published, and 
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ance merits in Europe. To chemical science 
we are indebted both to a knowledge of the 
cause, and therefore, in a certain degree, 
"for the means of preventing the malady, 
and for a remedy which bids fair to prove 
a specific. The use of Iodine has been 
found universally successful, and M. Bous- 
singault has discovered that various salts, 
which experience has shown to act in 
checking or eradicating the disease, owe 
this property to the minute portion of Io- 
ro 
ar Medellin; those of Peiiol, 
Aa eng and others near the Vega 
de Lupia; those of Galindo, Paila, Mur- 
culago, and Arninga, in the Upper Cauca. 
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NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO PAYTA, 
ON THE COAST OF PERU. 
By the late Col. Hall, of Quito. 
Travellers who favour the public with 
the history of their rambles, generally 
commence by giving some account of the 
cause, whether business, pleasure, Or Sci- 
ence, which puts them in motion. To 
comply with this rule, I must enter into a 
_ narrative which, in many respects, may be 
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considered uninteresting ; but perhaps may 
be excused, as throwing some light on the 
civil and political state of a country which, 
in this respect at least, is very imperfectly 
known in Europe; nor do I think what I 
am about to relate will tempt many of my 
countrymen to a nearer acquaintance with 
it. A slight historical sketch will be ne- 
cessary to make the sequel intelligible. 
When the Republic of Colombia separated 
into three independent States, known by 
the names of Venezuela, New Grenada, 
and the Equator, there was a general wish 
among the inhabitants of the latter, to place 
at their head the late General.Sucre, the 
hero of Ayacucho, It is known to the 
world how he was barbarously murdered 
in the wood of Bemecos, on his return from 
Bogata, to his home and family, in Quito. 
Who were his assassins still belongs to 
conjecture; or rather, we may say, is not 
yet a matter of legal certainty. Moral and 
circumstantial evidence are not wanting, 
nor will the crime always remain in dark- 
ness. Of one thing, at least, there is no 
doubt, for whom his death paved the way 
to the Presidency of the Equator. General 
Flores had been long in possession of the 
military command, and, now the obstacle 
of his rival’s superior influence and cha- 
racter was cleared away, found no difficulty 
in securing the supreme authority, which 
was confirmed in his hands by the death 
of General Bolivar, in whose favour he at 
least pretended to have effected the sepa- 
ration of the Equator; but like General 
Urdamta, in Bogata, he found it more con- 
T when he perceived Bolivar had 
“ fallen into the sere and yellow leaf,” to 
retain for himself what he had affected to 
hold in pledge for his former chief and 
benefactor. As far as deceit constitutes a 
politician, Flores, at this period, proved 
himself an adept. He deceived Bolivar, 
who looked upon him as his trustiest adhe- 
rent; he deceived the people, who were 
sincere in their wishes for an roepen 
political system; he deceived the 
of  Hhery y pe pn x a free consti- 
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by pretending to act with his connivance. 
