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to the Sun itself. His fair companion Chia or Huythaca occasioned 

 by her magical arts the overflowing of the valley of Bogota, and for 

 so doing was banished by Botschica from the earth, and made to 

 revolve round it for the first time, as the moon. Botschica struck 

 the rock of Tequendama, and gave a passage for the waters to flow 

 off near the field of the Giants (Campo de Gigantes) r in which the 

 bones of elephant-like mastodons lie buried, at an elevation of 8250 

 (8792 Engl.) feet above the level of the sea. Captain Cochrane 

 (Journal of a Kesidence in Colombia, 1825, vol. ii. p. 390), and 

 Mr. John Ranking (Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru, 

 1827, p. 397), state that animals of this species are still living in 

 the Andes, and shed their teeth! Nemterequeteba, also called 

 Chinzapogua (enviado de Dios), is a human person, a bearded man, 

 who came from the East, from Pasca, and disappeared at Sogamoso. 

 The foundation of the sanctuary of Iraca is sometimes ascribed to 

 him and sometimes to Botschica, and, as the latter is said to have 

 borne also the name of Nemqueteba, the confusion between the two, 

 on ground so unhistoric, is easily accounted for. 



My old friend Colonel Acosta, in his instructive work, entitled 

 Compendio de la Hist, de la Nueva Granada, p. 185, endeavors to 

 prove, by means of the Chibcha language, that " potatoes (Solanum 

 tuberosum) bear at Usrne the native non-Peruvian name of Yorni, 

 and were found by Quesada already cultivated in the province of 

 Velez as early as 1537, a period when their introduction from Chili, 

 Peru, and Quito, would seem improbable, and therefore that the plant 

 may be regarded as a native of New Granada." I would remark, 

 however, that the Peruvian invasion and complete possession of 

 Quito took place before 1525, the year of the death of the Inca 

 Huayna Capac. The southern provinces of Quito even fell under 

 the dominion of Tupac Inca Yupanqui, at the conclusion of the 15th 

 century (Prescott, Conquest of Peru, vol. i. p. 332). In the un- 

 fortunately still very obscure history of the first introduction of the 

 potato into Europe, the merit of its introduction is yet very gene- 

 rally attributed to Sir John Hawkins, who is supposed to have 

 received it from Santa Fe in 1563 or 1565. It appears more cer- 

 tain that Sir Walter Raleigh planted the first potatoes on his Irish 

 estate near Youghal, from whence they were taken to Lancashire. 



