LA GUAYRA. O 



Were the work not too stupendous, from 

 knowing the policy of the Spaniards, we 

 might be led to believe, that this ridge was 

 raised on purpose to shut out the inhabitants 

 of the interior from all communication with 

 the rest of the world. 



In coasting alopg, the scenery is romantic 

 and pleasing to the eye, the mountains being 

 covered with trees and brushwood, and here 

 and there a small village, or cottage with 

 plantation of plantains and cocoa- trees at- 

 tached to it. 



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On the |1 3th we reached La Guayra, the 

 port of Caraccas. 



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The aspect of this place from the sea 

 is desolate and dreary in the extreme, and 

 exhibits all the ruin and dilapidation con- 

 sequent on the great earthquake of 1812. 

 However, though on landing and entering the 



