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8071. SPANISH AMERICA, Natural divisions of.—

The geography of the [Spanish-American] country seems to indicate three
confederacies. 1. What is north of the Isthmus.
2. What is south of it on the Atlantic;
and 3, the southern part on the Pacific. In
this form, we might be the balancing power.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 551. Ford ed., x, 20.
(M. Feb. 1816)