Industrial and Commercial South America (Classic Reprint)

Industrial and Commercial South America has been prepared, as was the descriptive guide, The South American Tour, with the desire to aid in promoting acquaintance withS outh America and, as a natural sequence, friendship and trade. As far as possible the facts have been gleaned from publications of the various Governments, in a few cases from those of our own, from high officials of many large companies, and from a few authoritative works. While I can hardly hope that despite all care and effort I have made no slip anywhere, I devoutly trust that no errors will be discovered of such magnitude as I have often noted in my reading of important publications and that any here detected will receive lenient criticism. The vast amount of labor involved in the collection of data and the effort made to attain accuracy has been such that no time remained for rhetorical embellishment unless with delayed publication. Great pains have been taken with spelling and accents, the correct use of the latter discovered with difficulty, as they are altogether omitted in many works and in others by no means to be depended upon. Yet they are most important for correct pronunciation. In this text the spelling of some names varies by intention because the two spellings are frequent and authorized, and should therefore be familiar. Thus Marowijne is theD utch and Maroni theE nglish name for the same river. So Suriname is spelled with and without the e. South American names ending in either ior rare found, thes common in older pubH cations.
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