ΤΟ SOUTH AMERICA, PERFORMED BY ORDER OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, IN THE YEARS 1817 AND 1818, IN THE Frigate Congress. BY H. M. BRACKENRIDGE, ESQ. SECRETARY TO THE MISSION. "The glimmerings which reach us from South America, enable us only to see IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Baltimore: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. JOHN D. TOY, PRINTER. 1819. 203.e.17. DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifteenth day of October, forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of ica, H. M. Brackenridge, of the said District, hath deposited office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Pr tor, in the words and figures following, to wit: SEAL. "A Voyage to South America, performed by order of the American go ment, in the years 1817 and 1818, in the frigate Congress. By H. M. Bra ridge, Esq. secretary to the mission. "The glimmerings which reach us from South America, enable us only that its inhabitants are held under the accumulated pressure of slavery, s stition, and ignorance. Whenever they shall be able to rise under this we and to show themselves to the rest of the world, they will probably show they are like the rest of the world.”—JEFFERSON'S NOTES ON VIRGINIA. In conformity to an Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times the mentioned," and also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to the entitled, 'An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copi Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies du the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the ar Designing, Engraving, and Etching historical and other prints.” CONTENTS. Importance of Spanish America-Remarks on the popula tion-State of learning and information-Spanish colo- Departure from Rio-Provinces of St. Paul, St. Cathe- Documents referred to in the president's message at the commencement of the second session of the fifteenth |