Note 852 — Chapter VIII · NEW GRANADA. (continued 2)

Noticias secretas de America, pp. 489-536, 382-3 (Londres, 1826).

Juan and Ulloa were distinguished men of science, Tenientes Generales of the Navy and members of the British Royal Society and of the Royal Academies of Paris, Berlin and Stockholm. Their report was so damaging as to the defenceless condition of the ports that it was jealously kept secret until, after the independence of the colonies had rendered this unimportant, a copy was procured by Don David Barry and printed in London. From casual allusions by the authors, they seem to have been good Catholics and punctual in religious observance.