sahara eat 2 3 2g canbe Rea 
illo, sey on the Biers ; 25 miles SS 
ao ftreets are she and w 
GUA 
St. Nicholas, is aig igo to the N. while others extend 
here are 
Within the mountains t 
alfo five mining ae each having a church, and chaplain 
nt; there are alfo in the isles 43 
theeps 000 beeve 
16 in the teil of Frapuste: 
this itation, there is a great eo ah of looms for al 
the deareft being nine mes gy ard. 
wn of eS in the diocefe of Trux- 
S.E. of Truzxillo. 
UANAPU, a river of Brazil, which, uniting with 
the PMicaciiac forms the Para. 
GUA , atown of S. America, | in isha province 
The chief Sah Of Ae inhabitants contifts in cattle, 6f 
which they poffefs very numerous herds. They fupply the 
province with vaft numbers of oxen, andvalfo of mules ; ang 
export the furplus by a a eee or Guian 
The population of this town confilts of 12,300 adidas + : 
not fumptuous, tolerably well built. 
with moderate revenue ; and the church is large, handfome, 
and much adorned. Depons afcribes its Glasto to its 
being in poffeffion of our lady of Camoroto, whofe virtues 
miracles attra& a great = of vifitors from all the 
neighbouring Above. 3 93 leagu om aon 
and 24 leagues S.E. from ‘Truxi bed N. lat = eae W. lon 
of Quito wae miles N. of Loxa 
CHO, a town of eee in the diocefe of 
Tacs on the poaity S. lat. 9° 2 
GUANCA-BAMBA, a town of Perti; i in the diocefe of 
Traxil'o; 55 miles E. of Piura 
GUANCANA, a townof Pern; in the diocefe of La 
Paz; ‘on.the lake Titicaca, - 
GUANCA-VELICA, a town of Peru, in the dio- 
cele of Guamanga, ‘and we of a jurifdiGtion of. 
fame ile uamanga. ‘This 
e viceroy, Don Fran- 
: TF a 
The one of the largett and — cities of the viceroyalty. 
1 ove deme 1s $e cold, and the climate changeable, as 
reezes on the fame = Being tempefts t 
of thunder, lolitas: and hail. The buildings are mott- 
ly conftruéted of a kind of tufa, found near a warm {pring 
here is a dangerous torrent, which is 
The grand !mine of — 
ifeovered in 15633 i 
aged byacompany of forty, who delivered the quichitrer 
to at a certain price; buta fire in a deftroyed 
works, and the mine has been fince in confider- 
y: S. lat. 12° 45's g. 
Guawca-venica, or. “Huanca-V celica, a nidigtion of 
merica, in the bifhopric of Guamanga, or one 
S.A 
of the vinces of the viceroyalty of Peru. The town 
lal derives its name, was . on account of the 
reh Poanenter 8, from the wor. of which the inha- / 
be ate bfitt old temperature 
GUA 
pr the growth of grain and fruits, they are fupplied 
by their neighbour. 
ia this intendancy, with its garg of Caftrovireyna 
a ircay, 1 eof gold, of filver, 2 of quickfilver, 
and 10 of fides were chore in 1791 ; two of gold and 215 
of filver were in an abandoned ftate. The quickfilver mine 
was formerly much celebrated ; but it appears to be nearly 
’ -exhauited, after having, in the courfe of two centuries, 
preduced mercury to the value of more than 67,000,000 
dollars. We learn from Helms,’ that at Guancavelica, a 
S 
Qu 
argillite graduates into caleareous fand-ftone, 
into rai limeflone ; all equally rich in gold, filver, om 
mercu 
GUANCHACO, a fea-port of Peru, near Truxillo, 
of which it is the harbour. 
NCHES, a river = 7 which er into the 
Spanifh Main, N. lat. 2 ong. 
GUANDA GNANO, « a tank of Aa te in Seva 29 
miles N.W. of Friuli. 
GUANGON, a town on the N. a of the ifland 
of Lugon. N. lat. 18° 24!. E. long. 12 
NJAYA, atownof Peru, in the diceshs of Gua- 
manga ; 52 miles N. of Guancavelica. 
UANJOOK, a townof Abyflinia; 20 miles $.W. of 
Tcherkin. 
GUANO, atown of S. America, in the province of 
Quito; 10 miles N.E. of Riobamba. 
Guano Key, Great and seats twofmall iflands belonging 
to the Bahamas; the form . lat. 26° 30'.. W. long. 
77 3o'; and the or ge in N. lat. 26° 18'. W. long. 
7°-5> 
fe in Geology, a yellowifh-brown earthy fub- 
{tance of a peculiar kind, without tafte and o ser Si ré- 
fembling t that of caftoreum. ‘Thi ig i al which for 
centuries has been ufed by the a as a manure. 
bay He of fome neighbouring rocky iflands in the Saxith 
a, from whence large quantities are annually ai ag to 
ie continent of America. Indeed, pita: without this fub- 
ftance, would be notliing but a barr 
ntioned bral early ot ll 
in South America, and it a eyen been conj to be 
the dung of birds; but ever fince the time of Ulloa it has 
fallen into oblivion, from which it was refcued by Mr. Von 
Humboldt, who has given an intereftin acganey = JF it, which 
is rendered {till more valuable by the e mical anal yfis made 
of this fubftance by pth nina Vauquelin, an 
to whom that celebrated traveller had comm sit i {peci- 
te of, it.. The following Bak ie towards the hif. 
ory of the guano is taken py a letter written to Mr. 
Ky roth by Mr. Von Humbo 
The word Juana (the pe vay confound the fyl- 
lable Jue with that of gua, and u withe) fi » in the 
language of the Incas, dung for manuring: the verb fo manure 
being uanunchani. All the Aborigines of Peru were of 
3 which was, how- 
opinion that this fubftance is birds’-dun 
ever, doubted by many of the Spaniards. 
It ‘king that all the Guano-iflands and rocks 
t is, worth remar. 
fi 
Pa 
are 
and 
