Author: United States

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780265531297

Excerpt from Report and Accompanying Papers of the Commission Appointed by the President of the United States "to Investigate and Report Upon the True Divisional Line Between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana," Vol. 3: Geographical All the maps of the region in dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela have been made. With an imperfect, and generally very defective, knowledge of the country. They are therefore replete with errors; and it is hlardlv to be expected that any of them should present boundary lines which will commend themselves to the unqualified approval of the Commission. Not on this account, however, should these maps be disregarded in the present controversy. A critical examination will certainly disclose therein errors of fact and errors of judgment; but those very errors, especially in cases where they may be found to be general in the maps of a particular period, serve to illustrate the beliefs of the world at that period; and thus throw light upon the meaning of contempora neons treaties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.