ULLOa's voyage to south AMERICA. 4^9 



XVTII. — Signal on the Mountain of Sefgum. 



On the mountain of Sefgum they had occafion to flay only from the 20th to the 23d 

 of February. For this fignal flood on the declivity of a mountain, and they^gilantly 

 employed every moment when the other deferts were free from thofe clouds in whicn 

 they are ufually involved. 



XIX. — Signal on the Defert of Senegualap. 



The obfervations at the fignal of Senegualap detained them from the 23d of February 

 to the 13th of March. The length of the time was indeed the mofl difagreeable part, 

 as otherwife they did not place this among the worfl flations they had met with during 

 their courfe of obfervations. 



XX. — Signal on the Defert of Chufay. 



From Senegualap they proceeded to the defert of Chufay, a flation which gave thefe 

 gentlemen no lefs trouble than it had done us. Our company had no concern with 

 the flation on this defert ; for according to the alternative eflablifhed between the two 

 companies, that of Senegualap was the place to which we were to repair. But after 

 finifhing the obfervations at Lalangufo, being uneafy at the long flay of M. Godin 

 and Don George Juan at Quito, to divert our thoughts by fome laborious employ- 

 ment, we divided our company into two, in order to profecute the menfuration, till 

 thofe gentlemen returned. Accordingly, M. Bouguer, at the head of one detachment, 

 went to the fignal of Senegualap, and M. de la Condamine and myfelf repaired to that 

 of Chufay. But M. Godin and Don George Juan joining us there, we returned to our 

 proper company, and the operations were continued in the order agreed on. 



XXI. — Signal on the Defert of Sinafaguan. 



This defert was one of thofe common to both companies ; and that of Don George 

 Juan remained on it till the 29th of May, when the obfervations of both were finifhed* 

 Thus every member of the two companies equally fhared in the fatigues of the opera- 

 tions, and in the hardfhips unavoidable in fuch dreary regions. 



XXII. — Signal on the Defert of Quinoaloma. 



The defert of Quinoaloma, like the former, may be claiTed among the mofl dif- 

 agreeable flations in the whole feries ; for though they repaired hither from Sinafaguan^ 

 it was the 3ifl of the fame month before they could finifh the obfervations relating to 

 this fignal. 



In their road from Quinoaloma they pafTed through the town of Azogues ; where 

 leaving their inflruments and baggage, they went to Cuenca, to furvey the plains of 

 Talqui and Los Bannos, in order to make choice of one of them for meafuring the 

 bafe ; and having pitched on the latter, and confulted with us relating to the fignals 

 wanting, they returned to the town of Azogues. 



XXIII. — Signal on the Defert of Yafuay. 



On the 1 5th of June they proceeded to the defert of Yafuay, and continued there 



till the nth of July; when, having finifhed their obfervations, they returned to 



Cuenca, where they employed themfelves in meafuring the bafe on the plain of Los 



8 Bannos^ 



