TOPOGEAPHY OF ECUADOE. 



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But tlie violence of man has done even more than hostile nature to depopulate 

 the land. The native settlement of Pimampiro had at one time a population of 

 probably 11,000 civilised Indians, all of whom left in a body to escape the oppres- 

 sion of the Spaniards, descending to the eastern forests inhabited by the Sucumbio 



Fig. 96. — Ancon de las Saedinas. 

 Scale 1 : 700,000. 



79 lo- 



west ot" Greenwich 



76°5Q' 



Depths. 



Oto.5 

 Fathoms. 



5 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



12 Miles. 



tribe. In general the inhabitants of these uplands are extremely industrious, 

 and the disasters of 1868 have already been more than repaired, so far as regards 

 population, agriculture, and public wealth. The gold, silver and salt mines, how- 

 ever, are little worked ; but the Indians of the lower Mira valley collect the 



