"Caracas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pleasure in the inspection of this collection, which contains two or three fine pictures of Raphael, several by Titian and the Caracas, some 225 capital productions of the Dutch and Flemish schools, and some admirable productions of the English school, particularly two by Wilson, one by Turner, and one by Vobson, amounting, in the whole, to 300 first-rate pictures by the first ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... patron of the plant and encouraged its propagation in Rio, Minas, Espirito Santo, and Sao Paulo. The Spanish voyager, Don Francisco Xavier Navarro, is credited with the introduction of coffee into Costa Rica from Cuba in 1779. In Venezuela the industry was started near Caracas by a priest, Jose Antonio Mohedano, with seed brought ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers |
