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Excerpt from Facts About Santo Domingo, Applicable to the Present Crisis: An Address, Delivered Before the American Geographical and Statistical Society at New York, April 3, 1862 Here he established the first white colony on this side of the Atlantic, introducing also horses, cattle, and domestic animals of all kinds, grain, seeds of various plants, vines, sugar-canes, and many European grafts and saplings. "There was something wonderfully grand," says the historian, "in the idea of thus introducing new races of animals and plants, of building cities, extending colonies, and sowing the seeds of civilization and of enlightened empire in this beautiful but savage world. It struck the minds of learned and classical men with admiration, filling them with pleasant dreams and reveries, and seeming to realize the poetical pictures of the olden time." "Columbus," says old Peter Martyr, who describes so graphically events at this period, "has begun to build a city, as he has lately written to me, and to sow our seeds and propagate our animals. Who of us shall now speak with wonder of Saturn, Ceres, and Triptolemus, travelling about the earth to spread new inventions among mankind? Or of the Ph nicians, who built Tyre or Sidon? Or of the Tyrians themselves, whose roving desires led them to migrate into foreign lands, to build new cities, and establish new communities?" The theatre of the drama was worthy of the stirring events therein enacted. Glowing descriptions of its palmy groves, its lofty but luxuriant mountains, its pictured landscapes of rich smiling valleys and broad sweeping plains, its majestic rivers, flowing through aromatic forests to secure and spacious bays and harbors, its mines of gold and silver and precious stones, its numerous and beautiful birds, its abundant fishes, its manifold and delicious fruits, its fragrant flowers of perpetual bloom, its soft and voluptuous climate, the cordiality and gentleness of its simple-minded inhabitants; these went back to Spain, thrilling the public heart from Cordova to Barcelona and the shores of the little port of Palos, and, radiating thence, caused the pulse of enterprise throughout Europe to beat with liveliest throbs. Enthusiasts and adventurers flocked from all sides to visit these new-found regions of wealth and enchantment. 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."

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