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parallels of latitude. On his third voyage (from the end of May 

 1498 to the end of November 1500), in which, from the Boca 

 del Drago to the Island of Margarita, and afterwards from 

 that island to Haiti, he felt the whole force of the Equinoctial 

 current, "that movement of the waters which is in accordance 

 or conformity with the movement of the heavens movimiento 

 de los cielos," he says expressly that the Island of Trini- 

 dad had been torn from the mainland by the violence of the 

 current. He alludes to a chart which he sends to the 

 monarchs, a " pintura de la tierra" by himself, which is 

 often referred to in the celebrated lawsuit against Don Diego 

 Colon respecting the rights of the Admiral. "Es la carta 

 de marear y figura que hizo el Almirante senalando los 

 rumbos y vientos por los quales vino a Paria, que dicen parte 

 del Asia", (Navarrete Yiages y Descubrimientos que hicieron 

 por mar los Espanoles, T. i. p. 253 and 260 ; T. iii. p. 539 

 and 587.) 



( 4 ) p. 210. " Over the snow-covered Paropanisus." 



Diodorus's descriptions of the Paropanisus (Diodor. Sicul. 

 lib. xvii. p. 553, Rhodom.) might almost pass for a descrip- 

 tion of the Andes of Peru. The Army passed through in- 

 habited places where snow fell daily ! 



( 5 ) p. 211. "Herrara in the Decades." 



Historia general de las Indias occidentals, Dec. i. lib iii. 

 cap. 12 (ed. 1601, p. 106] ; Juan Bautista Muiioz, Historia 

 del Nuevo Mundo, lib. vi. c. 31, p. 301 ; Humboldt, Examen 

 Grit. T. iii p. 111. 



