18 TRAVELS AMONGST THE ORE AT ANDES. chap. i. 



the copy in the Map Room of the British Museum. The road 

 by which the Governor of Esmeraldas hoped to benefit his 

 country {camino mieve de Quito) will be seen indicated in the 

 neighbourhood of the Equator, leading from Nono to the Rio 

 Blanco (a branch of the R. Esmeraldas). It has never come 

 into general use. Mr. Stevenson was deputed in 1809 to re- 

 examine it, and he reported favourably (see Historical and 

 descriptive narrative of twenty years' residoice in South America, 

 by W. B. Stevenson, Lond., 1829, vol. 2, pp. 355-7, etc.) : but 

 down to the present time the circuitous route via Guayaquil 

 has been preferred. 



NATIVE HOUSE AT GUARANDA. 



