Excerpt from Temperate Chile: A Progressive Spain IF in seeking to depict this remarkable State I have done injustice to a really amiable people, with whom I found myself much in sympathy, and from whom I received kindly consideration, I deeply regret it. It is so easy to be critical, so difficult to be just; for the warts on the face of a strange country show so promi uently that they withdraw our gaze from its beauties. The serious floods and storms that have this year visited Temperate Chile, ' from Valparaiso to Puerto Montt, are quite exceptional; and I trust that the earthquake that has again looked in at Concepcion will be long of returning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.