British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . lOREST CLEARING IN SOUTH AMERICA. RAILROAD CONSTKl C TION IN .S(HTH AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 521 appears second in the list, was the son of an English gen-tleman who took part on the Chilean side in the war ofliberation, and became a Chilean. The latters greatgrandson is Senor Agustin Edwards, the well-knownChilean statesman, and the present highly esteemed min-ister-plenipotentiary in London. Wheelwrights talents were not confined t
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . lOREST CLEARING IN SOUTH AMERICA. RAILROAD CONSTKl C TION IN .S(HTH AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 521 appears second in the list, was the son of an English gen-tleman who took part on the Chilean side in the war ofliberation, and became a Chilean. The latters greatgrandson is Senor Agustin Edwards, the well-knownChilean statesman, and the present highly esteemed min-ister-plenipotentiary in London. Wheelwrights talents were not confined to the businessside of his profession, although he afterwards became apartner of Mr. (afterwards Lord) Brasseys, the firm be-ing known as Brassey, Withes, and Wheelwright. Hisscientific attainments were marked, and he was an expertin territory. Thus in 1860, in his character of find him reading to the Royal Geographical Society apaper on a proposed railway across the Andes, fromCaldera to Rosario via Cordoba. It is said to have beenWheelwright himself, moreover, who discovered theChilean coal field at Talcahuano, which has subsequentlyplayed so important a part in the st
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