The hispanic nations of the new world: a chronicle of our southern neighbors

At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land of unsuspected resources. No empire mankind had ever yet known rivaled in size the illimitable domains of Spain and Portugal in the New World; and none displayed such remarkable contrasts in land and people. Boundless plains and forests, swamps and deserts, mighty mountain chains, torrential streams and majestic rivers, marked the surface of the country. This vast territory stretched from the temperate prairies west of the Mississippi down to the steaming lowlands of Central America, then up through tablelands in the southern continent to high plateaus, miles above sea level: where the sun blazed and the cold, dry air was hard to breathe, and then higher still to the lofty peaks of the Andes, clad in eternal Snowor pouring fire and smoke from their summits in thc clouds, and thence to the lower temperate valleys, grassy pampas, and undulating hills of the far south.

• Autores: Shepherd, William R.
• Tipo de recurso: Book
• Fecha de publicación: 1919
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/8275
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/8275; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/4857/
• Palabra clave: 98 Historia general de América del Sur / History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds; Repúblicas de América del sur; Repúblicas del Caribe; México; Revolución; Independencia; Panamericanismo; South American republics; Republics of the Caribbean; Mexico; Revolution; Independence; Pan-Americanism
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional