Excerpt from The Venezuelan Question and the Monroe Doctrine: A Lecture Delivered in Response to an Invitation of the Literary Societies of the University of Wisconsin, January 10, 1896 The climate also affords almost as great variety as does the landscape. On some of the lowlands, especially about Lake Maracaibo, the heat is intense; but in the more western regions the trade winds so modify the temperature that the thermometer seldom rises above 82 degrees or falls below 60. In the interior, of course, there are greater variations of heat and cold. 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.