BOGOTA'. 



gloomy, that its sides are not distinguish- 

 able in the dense and dismal spot. 



October 1st, 1823. On account of the vast 

 quantity of business the executive had to 

 get through, and the great deficiency in 

 the number of clerks requisite for forward- 

 ing it, I was detained until this time in 

 Bogota, in order to procure all the docu- 

 ments necessary to be forwarded to Eng- 

 land, regarding the Pearl Fishery ; and as 

 the season for the fishery does not com- 

 mence on the Atlantic side of Colombia 

 before April, I considered I should have 

 some spare time, which I might employ 

 in visiting many parts of the interior, pre- 

 viously to my going to Maracaybo, to direct 

 the first essay in the revival of this once 

 most lucrative branch of commerce. 



Being very intimate with Senor P6pe 

 Paris, the director of the draining of the 



