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A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical - Exhibiting its Resources and Capabilities, Together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony (Paperback)
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A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical - Exhibiting its Resources and Capabilities, Together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies
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Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804 1865) was a German-born
surveyor and traveller. In 1835 1839 he explored British Guiana for
the Royal Geographical Society. In 1840 he was appointed to define
its boundaries with Brazil, as Brazilian encroachments were wiping
out native tribes. His report to the Colonial Office was published
as A Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical in
1840, and was the first detailed account of the colony. As well as
surveying the land, and being the first European to reach the
source of the Essequibo River, he discovered many new species of
plants. His work on the boundaries led to the establishment of the
'Schomburgk Line' which was the basis for the definition of the
borders with Brazil and Venezuela at the end of the century. He was
knighted in 1845, and spent much of the rest of his life abroad as
a British consul.
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