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...choosing a new Minister to Egypt, to succeed Senator Willis' friend, J. Morton Howell, the President listened to Senator Swanson (Virginia) and prepared to elevate Franklin Mott Gunther, a "career man" from New York and Virginia and whose 20-year service has embraced France, Nicaragua, Portugal, Brazil, Norway, Britain, Holland, Italy and the Mexican division of the State Department...
...that jungle-covered spot of northern South America, where Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil touch each other angularly, is Mt. Roraima, famed among travelers and explorers. It is a huge wall of red rock that rises, like a ruddy tree trunk, 1,500 ft. sheer above the surrounding plateau and altogether some 8,500 ft. above sea level. It seems unscalable...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
...weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. A special boat will carry the mail to the most northeasterly point of Brazil. And there planes will again take up the burden, resuming service to the Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay. Charge for one letter: circa...
...Empire of Brazil." Professor Haring, Harvard...