The Magnetic Kingdom of Nature

I could not persuade myself; until, through a reciprocal exchange of letters that began some years ago, having resolved every ambiguity, I found you to be not an Indian by origin, but a man born of the illustrious Fabian family of Genoa, inserted into the Spanish lineage, and beyond all exception. To all these things was added the integrity of your innocent and blameless life, joined with a fervent zeal for promoting the Christian Religion, and the solicitude with which