This broad Bolivian plateau narrows northwards through Peru and finally contracts into the ecuadorian "avenue of volcanoes."
"South America and the War"
F. A. Kirkpatrick
The failure of the Congress of Ecuador to hold a session at the time appointed for that purpose, in January last, will probably render abortive a treaty of commerce with that Republic, which was signed at Quito on the 13th of June, 1839, and had been duly ratified on our part, but which required the approbation of that body prior to its ratification by the ecuadorian Executive.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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After an elaborate correspondence and repeated and earnest representations on our part Mr. Santos was, after an alleged trial and conviction, eventually included in a general decree of amnesty and pardoned by the ecuadorian Executive and released, leaving the question of his American citizenship denied by the ecuadorian Government, but insisted upon by our own.
"Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present"
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