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Excerpt from Our Knowledge of California and the North-West Coast One Hundred Years Since: Read Before the Albany Institute, February 15, 1870
First: Spain, the only nation having territory on the south seas or Pacific, was satisfied with the abundant flow of wealth from her mines, and with annually dispatching ships laden with silver from Acap'ulco for the East India trade at the Philippines. These ships almost invariably followed the same route, sailing on the same lines of latitude, rarely north of And they feared that the extension and spread of the news of discoveries would create for themselves, rivals in trade among the other powers of Europe. 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.
