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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sts with aCongress of 2 chambers,—Senate and House of Representatives.Universal suffrage prevails; Vice-President is appointed by thePresident. The climate embraces all degrees of heat and cold. The productsof two zones are found iu Bolivia. Ebony, rosewood, mahogany,cinchona, and other valuable trees abound. Manufactures limited tocoarse cotton cloth, hate, cordage^ leather and alpaca. Tin, copper,gold, and vast quantities of India rubber of the finest quality abound.Silver mines almost inexhaustible; annual yield of the Cerro de Po-tosi mines, $3,250,000. Two-thirds of exports are silver. Importsfaverage $6,150,000; exports, $9,000,000. Standing army, 2,421 men; generals and other ofiicers, 1,021; two-thirds of revenue goes to support the army. Roman Catholic the prevailing religion; other creeds tolerated; 4universities. In 1884 but 12,000 pupils and students at schools andcolleges. Three railroads open for trafiic. ATLAS OF THE WOELD. 187 MAP OF BRAZIL, BOLIVIA, PERU AND ECUADOR
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188 ATLAS OF TUE WORLD. ECUADOR. Ek-wa-dOr A republic of South America, constituted 1830 ; situated on theequator, from vvhicb it takes its name. Extremely mountainous ;traversed from north to south by three ranges of the Andes. Mostlofty peaks: Cotopaxi, 13,880 feet; Chimborazo, 21,424; Cayambe,19,831. Climate, on the coast, hot; on the high table lands, coldand bleak; valleys are free from extremes of temperature. Area,248,370 square miles. Population, 946,033. Quito, the capital, has80,000 inhabitants; Guayaquil, the principal seaport, 26,000. Quitois the highest inhabited city, being 9,500 feet above sea-level. Ecuador w^as formed from the American Free State, founded bySimon Bolivar. Executive power rests with a President, electedfor 4 years; legislative, with a Congress of two houses. Presidentand Vice-Prenident are nominated by 900 chosen electors. Vice-President is President of the Council of State. Hereditary rightsor privileges prohibited by law. Belief in the Roman Catholic

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