IJfDEX. 



427 



Manati of tlie island of Cuba, ii.492 

 Mauitivitanos, ii. 333 

 Maniquarez, inhabitants of, i. 190 ; 



village of, i. 194; potteries of, i. 



196; petroleum, springs of, i. 



365 



Manoa, expedition to, iii. 51 

 Manzanares, the, i. 145, 149, 363 ; 



bar of the, i. 147; banks of the, 



159; Indian custom of bathing 



in, i. 159 



Mapara, cataract of, ii. 235 

 Maps of America, ii. 331, iii. 29, 



58, 59 



of Cuba, iii. 232 



Mar Blanco, iii. 32 



Maracay, i. 502 ; inhabitants of, 1. 



502, 503 ; situation of, i. 484 

 Maracaibo, port of, i. 396 

 Maravaca, or Sierra Mariguaca, ii. 



458 



Marepizanas, tribe of, ii. 333 

 Margareta, island of, iii. 113, 115 

 Marguerita, island of, iii. 216, 371, 



372 

 Mariara, peaks of ii. 3 ; geological 



construction of, ii. 22 ; hot 



springs of, ii. 20,24; medicinal 



waters of, ii. 26 

 Marl formations, i. 35 

 Maroa, mission of, ii. 385 

 Maryland, iii. 143 

 Matacona, river, ii. 460 

 Matagorda, iii. 90 

 Mataveni, river, ii. 322, 480 

 Matanzas, hamlet of, L 58; origin 



of the name, ib. 

 Matuna, iii. 219 

 Matunilla, iii. 219 

 Mauritia-palm, or sago-tree, 1. 331, 



ii. 55, 107, 257, iii. 7 n, 8, 72 

 Mauritius, sugar canes, first brought 



to the, i. 486 



Mavaca, river, ii. 419, 459 

 Maxima of mountain elevation, iii. 



351,353,354 



Maypures, climate of, ii. 242; luxu- 

 riant vegetation of, ii. 257; 



Tillage of, ii. 296, cataract of, ii. 



223,235,293, 480; inhabitants 

 of, ii. 306 ; potteries of, ii. 307, 

 308; birds of, ii. 311; animals 

 of, ib. 



language, ii. 302, 303 



Menagerie, ii. 406 

 Meat, consumption of, i. 410 n 

 Mediterranean Sea, formation of the, 

 i. 9 n ; basins of the, iii. 357 



of the west, i. 396, 



iii. 357 



Medusas, or sea-nettles, i. 26; phos- 

 phoric properties of, i. 27, 28 

 Memnon, statue of, probable cause 



of the sounds issuing from, ii. 



227 



Mendoza, iii. 298 

 Mesopotamia, iii. 30 

 Mestizoes, i. 205 

 Meta, river, ii. 137, 229-230, iii. 



41, 43, 55; plains of the, iii. 



358 

 Meteorology, main problem of, i. 



223 

 Meteors, i. 28, 29 ; connection of, 



with the, undulations of the 



earth, i. 166 



falling, i. 353-359 



fiery, seen at Cumana, i. 



360 



luminous, i. 352-353 



Mexico, or New Spain, connection 



of, with foreign colonies, i. 396 ; 



native population of, i. 397, iii. 



129; state of society in, i. 413; 



nobility of, i. 414; wheat of, i. 



495 ; government of, iii. 75 ; ag- 

 riculture of, iii. 126 ; extent of, 



iii. 129 



Miasma, experiments on, i. 372 

 Mica-slate, formations of, iii. 379, 



383, 3S5 



Middleberp, iii. 16) 

 Migration of nations, ii. 361, Iii. 76 



of insects, ii. 282 



of plants, i. 424; diffi. 



culties of the theory, i. 425 

 Milk, distribution of animals yield* 



ing, ii. 492, 493 



