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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II REDISCOVERING LATIN AMERICA' As it is proposed to present in this volume each of the reports of the eight commissions in a single chapter, including the discussions connected with its presentation, ?material twenty-fold more extended than the chapter itself, ?it is obviously impossible to do more than select what seems of greatest importance in connection with each theme and condense even that modicum. The reader is referred for details and additional phases of each topic to the three-volume report of the Congress, containing the full statements of the eight commissions as finally edited, with the correctives due to the discussions of the Congress incorporated in the text. To Commission I on Survey and Occupation, whose Chairman was Mr. E. T. Colton, was entrusted the important task of laying before the delegates the results of its careful investigation of the varied conditions bearing directly or indirectly upon the missionary occupation of Latin-American lands. It was thus a preview for the other Commissions. As delimited by the Commission, Latin America includes all the areas south of the Rio Grande, consisting of ten republics north and ten south of the Panama chapter{Section 4Canal Zone, and of colonies of France, Great Britain, Holland, Denmark and the Zone itself, administered like Porto Rico by the United States. Inhabiting this generous territory of 8,459,081 square miles is a population of 80,203,902, ?largely estimated rather than counted. These figures need to be compared with more familiar units to be fully appreciated. Thus the United States of North America, excluding Alaska, could be superimposed upon the. United States of Brazil with room enough left to accommodate two additional New Englands and New Jerseys, plus New York and Pennsylvania. New Yo