Excerpt from Travels in Central America: Being a Journal of Nearly Three Years Residence in the Country; Together With a Sketch of the History of the Republic, and an Account of Its Climate, Productions, Commerce, Etc The object of this work is to furnish the English reader with some trustworthy information respecting Central America, a portion of the world almost un known in England. It consists chiefly of extracts from the Author's private journal, and contains a brief sketch of the history of the Republic of Central America, from its origin to the present time; together with an account of the most remarkable phenomena and productions, and the present state of its society, agriculture, and commerce. During its completion the Author had not at hand any of the works which treat of Central 'america; but this is the less to be regretted, as the only publications he has seen relating to it were merely notices of hurried travels through the country, which, while abounding with palpable inaccuracies, contained no statistical or use ful information of any description. 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.