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ber of brooks, and, confequentiy, difcharging a quantity of water, may have an equal 

 claim to be called the principal fource. But without confidently determining this intri- 

 cate point, I fhall firft confider the fources of thofe which run into it from the more 

 remote diftances, and next, thofe which precipitate themfelves down feveral cafcades 

 formed by the crags of the Andes, and, after being augmented by others it receives, 

 join the Maranon in a more copious flream ; leaving it to the reader to determine which 

 is the original fource. 



The moft received opinion, concerning the remoteft fource of the river Maranon, is 

 that which places it in the jurifdidion of Tarma, iffuing from the lake of Lauricocha, 

 near the city of Guanuco, in 1 1° fouth latitude, whence it direfts its courfe fouth almofl 

 to 1 2° through the country belonging to this jurifdiftion ; and, forming infenfibly a circuit, 

 flows eaftward through the country of Juaxa ; where, after being precipitated from the 

 eaft fide of the Cordillera of the Andes, proceeds northward ; and, leaving the jurifdic- 

 tions of Mayabamba and Chacha-poyas, it continues its courfe to the city of Jaen, the lati- 

 tude of which, in the foregoing chapter, has been placed in 5° 2 1 '. There, by a fecond 

 circuit, it runs towards the eaft in a continual diredion ; till at length it falls into the 

 ocean, where its mouth is of fuch an enormous breadth, that it reaches from the equi- 

 noftial to beyond the firft degree of north latitude. Its diftance from Lauricocha lake 

 to Jaen, its windings included, is about two hundred leagues; and this city being 30*^ 

 to the weft of its mouth, is fix hundred leagues from it, which, with the feveral cir- 

 cuits and windings, may, without excefs, be computed at nine hundred fuch leagues : 

 fo that its whole courfe, from Lauricocha to its influx into the ocean, is at leaft one 

 thoufand one hundred leagues. 



Yet the branch which ilTues from Lauricocha is not the only one flowing from thefe 

 parts into the Maranon ; nor is it the moft fouthern river which difcharges its waters 

 into that of the Amazons ; for, fouth of that lake, not far from Afangara, is the fource 

 of the river which pafles through Guamanga. Alfo in the jurifdidions of Vilcas and 

 Andaguaylas are two others, which, after running for fome time feparately, unite their 

 ftreams, and difcharge themfelves into the river iffuing from the lake Lauricocha. An- 

 other rifes in the province of Chimbi- Vilcas. And, laftly, one ftill farther to the fouth, 

 is the river Apurimac, which, directing its courfe to the northward, paffes through the 

 country of Cufco, not far from LIma-Tambo ; and after being joined by others, falls 

 into the Maranon about one hundred and twenty leagues eaft of the jundion of the 

 latter with the river Santiago. But here it is of fuch a width and depth, as to leave a 

 doubt whether it infinuates itfelf into the Maranon, or the Maranon pays tribute to the 

 Ucayale, as it is called in that part; fince at the conflux its impetuofity forces the 

 former to alter the ftraight direction of its courfe, and form a curve. Some will have 

 the Ucayale to be the true Maranon, and found theh' opinion on the remotenefs of its 

 fource, and the quantity of its waters, which equals at leaft, if it does not exceed, that 

 of Lauricocha. 



In the fpace intercepted between the jun£lion of the Maranon and the river Santiago, 

 are the Pongo de Manzeriche, and the mouth of the river Ucayale ; and about mid- 

 way betwixt them the river Guallaga, which has alfo its fource in the Cordilleras, eaft 

 of the province of Guamanga, and falls into the Maranon. One of the rivers contri- 

 buting to its increafe has its rife in the mountains of Moyo -Bamba ; and on its banks, 

 in the middle of its courfe towards the Gualaga, ftands a fmall village called Llamas ; 

 which, according to the moft credible accounts, was the place where Pedro de Orfica 

 embarked with his people on his expedition for the difcovery of the Maranon, and the 

 conqueft of the adjacent countries. 



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