312 PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA. 



Cundirumarca, inhabited by the tribe of the Chicas, and 

 whose prince had solicited Atahuallpa at Caxamarca for 

 auxiliary troops. These Chicas have been confounded with 

 the Chibchas or Muyscas of New Granada ; and thus the 

 name of the unknown more southern country has been 

 unduly transferred to that territory. 



(9) p. 278. " The fall of the Rio de Chamaya." 



Compare my Eecueil d'Observ. Astron., vol. i. p. 304 ; 

 Nivellement baroinetrique, No. 236-242. I have given in 

 the Vues des Cordilleres, PI. xxxi. a drawing of the " swim- 

 ming post/' as he binds round his head the handkerchief 

 containing the letters. 



( 10 ) p. 280. " Which, on account of an old observation 

 of La Condamine, was of some importance to the 

 geography of South America." 



I desired to connect chronometrically Tomependa, the 

 point at which La Condamine began his voyage, and other 

 places geographically determined by him on the Amazons 

 river, with the town of Quito. La Condamine had been in 

 June 1743, (59 years before me) at Tomependa, which place 

 I found, by star observations taken for 1 three nights, to be 

 in south lat. 5 31' 2b", and west longitude from Paris 

 80 56' 37" (from Greenwich 78 34' 55"). Previous to 

 my return to Prance the longitude of Quito was in error to 

 the full amount of 50 f minutes of arc, as Oltmanns has 

 shown by my observations, and by a laborious recalculation 

 of all those previously made. (Humboldt, Eecueil d' Obser- 

 vations Astron., vol. ii. p. 309-359). Jupiter's satellites, 



