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CHAPTER XVI. NEW GRANADA, AND THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMá.
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It is probably known to all that New Granada is the most northern of the republics of South America; or it should rather be said that it is the state nearest to the isthmus1, of which indeed it comprehends a considerable portion; the territory of the Gulf2 of Darien and the district of Panamá all being within the limits of New Granada.
It was, however, but the other day that New Granada formed only a part of the republic of Columbia, the republic of which Bolivar was the hero. As the inhabitants of Central America found it necessary to break up their state into different republics, so also did the people of Columbia. The heroes and patriots3 of Caracas and Quito could not consent to be governed from Bogotá; and therefore three states were formed out of one. They are New Granada, with its capital of Bogotá; Venezuela, with its capital of Caracas, lying exactly to the east of New Granada; and Ecuador—the state, that is, of Equator—lying to the south of New Granada, having its seaport4 at Guayaquil on the Pacific, with Quito, its chief city, exactly on the line.
The district of Columbia was one of the grandest appanages of the Spanish throne when the appanages of the Spanish throne were grand indeed. The town and port of Cartagena, on the Atlantic, were admirably fortified5, as was also Panamá on the Pacific. Its interior cities were populous6, flourishing, and, for that age, fairly civilized7. Now the whole country has received the boon8 of Utopian freedom; and the mind loses itself in contemplating9 to what lowest pitch of human degradation
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爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 ) | |
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cultivation
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suffrage
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emancipation
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niche
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liberator
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squatted
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decadence
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abrupt
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followers
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bristle
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brass
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condor
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transit
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colon
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denomination
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