crystallization-point

Updated: May 2, 2025

Monteverde, in January of that year, was cooped up in the remote province of Guiana, and Coro on the sea-coast was also held by his troops; but elsewhere the new Republic seemed fully established. Already the point of Constitution-making the crystallization-point of republics had been reached. The ports of Venezuela were for the first time opened to foreign trade.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859