118 M. de Humboldt on the Volcanos of Guatemala. 



tures. Southernmost stands the Volcan dc Barua, lat, 8° 50', 

 in the interior of the country, seven miles N.E. of Golfo Dulce ; 

 it is called in the English maps Volcan de Varu, and placed, 

 I believe incorrectly, far more to the east (under 84° 52' west 

 long., and 8° 25' lat.) in the province of Veragua. Next to 

 the Volcan de Barua comes the Volcan de Papagayo (lat. 

 10° 10'), not on the mountain of Santa Catalina, but five 

 leagues more to the north, scarcely more than ^f English miles 

 from the coast. 



East of the Volcan de Papagayo are three old burning 

 mountains, near the south shore of the lake of Nicaragua ; viz. 

 the Volcan de Orosi, between Rio Zabales and Rio Tei'luga; 

 the Volcan de Tenorio ; and the Volcan del Rincon de la 

 Vieja, — the last of which is in lat. 10° 57', and only 1° 35' west 

 of the mouth of the Rio San Juan in the Atlantic Ocean. The 

 great crater-lake of Nicaragua seems to me to have been 

 produced by some phajuomenon connected with this peculiar 

 eastern site of the Volcan de la Vieja. 



North of the city of Nicaragua, on the isthmus between the 

 Lake and the sea-coast, between 10° 30' and 12° 30' lat. some 

 uncertainty still prevails in the synonomy of the volcanos. 

 Juarros the historiographer of Guatemala, and Antonio de la 

 Cerda, Alcalde de la Ciudad de Granada, whose manuscript 

 maps I possess, adduce merely; 1. Volcan Mombacho, on a 

 mountain a few leagues south-east of the city of Grenada; 

 2. Volcan de Sapaloca, in the lake of Nicaragua, opposite 

 Volcan de Mombacho ; 3. Volcan de Masaya, between Ciudad 

 de Granada and Ciudad de Leon, near the little lake Masaya 

 west of the Rio Tepetapa, which connects the Laguna de Leon 

 or Managua v.'ith the Laguna de Nicaragua; 4. Volcan de 

 Momotombo, at the north end of Laguna de Leon, rather to 

 the east of Ciudad de Leon. According to this nomenclature, 

 the Volcan de Granada, of which Funnel and Dampier speak, 

 describing it as being in the form of a beehive, is omitted in all 

 the Spanish sea-charts. From a passage in Gomara {Historia 

 delas Tndias, fol. 112), it may be concluded that Volcan de Ma- 

 saya and Volcan de Granada, are synonymous. The chart of 

 the Deposito Hijdrogrqfico mentions : 1. Volcan de Bom bach o, 

 probably the Mombacho of the Alcalde of Granada ; 2. Volcan 

 de Granada, west of Ciudad de Granada; 3. Volcan de Leon, 

 clearly from its situation the celebrated Volcan de Masaya, 

 20' south of Ciudad de Leon. I repeat that, in my opinion, 

 the mountain which in the Spanish charts is called Volcan 

 de Granada, is either Volcan Bombacho, or Volcan Masaya,— 

 for both lie in the neighbourhood (south and east) of Ciudad 

 de Granada, Volcan Masaya, situated nearer the village of 



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