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enjoys the benefit of some extremely rich saline hot springs (122° Fahr.) in the 

 Casanare basin, which are utilised by the neighbouring Tunebo Indians for various 

 maladies. The Cocui district abounds in coal, iron, copper, argentiferous lead, 



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cinnabar and salt, resources hitherto untouched, owing to the absence of prac- 

 ticable roads. 



West of the C( ^ui the Sogamoso bends round to pierce the parallel ridges of 

 the Cordilleras through a series of deep gorges in a romantic region where all the 

 settlements are situated at some distance from the river, on the elevated terraces 



