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most part of the Uraricapara " the Valley of Inundation." 

 They place the Spanish mission of Santa Rosa in 3.46' N. 

 lat., and point out the route which leads from thence 

 northward across the chain of mountains to the Cano Ano- 

 capra, an affluent of the Paraguamusi, by means of which 

 one passes from the basin of the Eio Branco to that of the 

 Caroni. Two maps of these Portuguese officers, which con- 

 tain the whole details of the trigonometrical survey of the 

 windings of the Eio Branco, the Uraricuera, the Tacutu, 

 and the Mahu, have been kindly communicated to Colonel 

 Lapie and myself by the Count of Linhares. These valuable 

 unpublished documents, of which I have made 'use, are in 

 the hands of the learned geographer who began a consider- 

 able time ago to have them engraved at his own expense. 

 The Portuguese sometimes give the name of Eio Parime to 

 the whole of the Eio Branco, and sometimes confine that 

 denomination to one branch or tributary, the Uraricuera, 

 below the Cano Mayari and above the old mission of San 

 Antonio. As the words Paragua and Parime signify water, 

 great water, lake, or sea, it is not. surprising to find them 

 so often repeated among nations at a distance from each 

 other, the Omaguas on the Upper Maranoii, the Western 

 Guaranis, and the Caribs. In all parts of the world, as I 

 have already remarked, the largest rivers are called by those 

 who dwell on their banks " the Eiver," without any distinct 

 and peculiar appellation. Paragua, the name of a branch of 

 the Caroni, is also the name given by the natives to the 

 Upper Orinoco. The name Orinu^u is Tamanaki; and 

 Diego de Ordaz first heard it pronounced in 1531, when he 



