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Photograph by Frederick I. Monsen 



COLUMBUS IN BRONZE OVERLOOKING CARACAS, VENEZUELANS CAPITAL OP PERPETUAL 



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Situated in a fertile valley 3,000 feet above sea-level is the city of the nativity of Simon 

 Bolivar, the great Liberator of South America. It lies six miles south of Venezuela's 

 principal seaport, La Guaira, with which it is connected by a railroad that winds upward 

 from the shore by a serpentine route twenty-four miles long. 



