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  [Illustration: CATHEDRAL OF LIMA.

     Pl 1.
     Lt. Gibbon del.
     Wagner & McGuigan's Lith. Phila.]




     33D CONGRESS,}       HO. OF REPS.      { EXECUTIVE,
      1st Session.}                         { No. 53.

     EXPLORATION
     OF THE
     VALLEY OF THE AMAZON,

     MADE UNDER DIRECTION OF
     THE NAVY DEPARTMENT,
     BY
     WM. LEWIS HERNDON AND LARDNER GIBBON,
     LIEUTENANTS UNITED STATES NAVY.

     PART I.

     BY LIEUT. HERNDON.

     WASHINGTON:
     ROBERT ARMSTRONG, PUBLIC PRINTER
     1854.




     LETTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,
     COMMUNICATING
     A REPORT OF AN EXPLORATION OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON AND ITS
     TRIBUT