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CHOSEN DAYS IN SCOTLAND. By Josephine Helena Short. Map and 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.)

FROM GRETNA GREEN TO LAND’S END. By Katharine Lee Bates. 32 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.)

GEORGE ELIOT. Scenes and People in her Novels. By Charles S. Olcott. 24 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00 net. (Postage, 20 cents.)

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“THE SOLDIER’S LEAP”—GORGE IN THE ANDES, ACROSS WHICH ONE

OF O’HIGGINS’S CAVALRY LEAPED HIS HORSE TO ESCAPE

THE ROYALISTS.

THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA

BY

HARRY WESTON VAN DYKE

WITH INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN BARRETT

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION

NEW YORK

THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912,

By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.

Published October, 1912.

TO

MY FRIEND

JOHN BARRETT

IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM AND MY APPRECIATION OF

HIS MANY KINDNESSES