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" potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) bear at Usme the native 

 non-Peruvian name of Yomi, 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 unfortunately 

 still very obscure history of the first introduction of the 

 potato into Europe, the merit of its introduction is still 

 very generally attributed to Sir John Hawkins, who is sup- 

 posed to have received it from Santa Ee in 1563 or 1565. 

 It appears more certain that Sir Walter Raleigh planted 

 the first potatoes on his Irish estate near Youghal, from 

 whence they were taken to Lancashire. Before the con- 

 quista, the plantain (Musa), which since the arrival of the 

 Spaniards has been cultivated in all the warmer parts of 

 New Granada, was only found, as Colonel Acosta believes, 

 (p. 205) at Choco. On the name Cundinamarca, applied 

 by a false erudition to the young republic of New Granada 

 in 1811, a name " full of golden dreams" (suenos dorados), 

 more properly Cundirumarca (not Cunturmarca, Garcilaso, 

 lib. viii. cap. 2), see also Joaquin Acosta, p. 189. Luis 

 Daza, who joined the small invading army of the Conquis- 

 tador Sebastian de Belalcazar which came from Jhe south, 

 had heard of a distant country abounding in gold, called 



