Excerpt from The Amazon and Its Wonders: With Illustrations of Animal and Vegetable Life in the Amazonian ForestPhi-li, HE River Amazon, or Amazons, the Queen 5 i I of the South American Rivers, and one Of the great Rivers of the World, has its sources in the Andes, on the west coast of South.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.