Note 136 — INLAND TRADE WITH NEW MEXICO

Flint here refers to the most available authorities on Mexico. Conrad Malte-Brun was a Danish geographer (1775-1826), banished from his native country because of zeal for French revolutionary ideas. Settling in Paris, he devoted himself to geographical sciences, and issued Précis de la géographie universelle (Paris, 1810-29), which went through many editions and was long accepted as a standard authority. Alexander, Baron von Humboldt (1769-1859), was the most distinguished geographer of his time. His famous journey to South America and Mexico (1799-1804) first made Spanish America known to the world. Armed with official permission from Madrid his Mexican journey lasted about a year, in which he made a large collection of historical and scientific facts. The journals of his travels were published as part of his thirty-volume work on New Spain. He also published Essai Politique sur le Royaume du Nouveau Espagne (Paris, 1811). For Pike's work, see Brackenridge's Journal, in our volume vi, p. 155, note 56; also note 46, ante.—Ed.