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CATARACT 



RIO V IN AG RE, 



NEAR THE VOLCANO OF Pt TRACE 



PLATE XXX. 



The city of Popayan, capital of a province of 

 New Grenada, is situate in the beautiful valley 

 of Rio Cauca, at the foot of the great volcanoes 

 of Purace and Sotara. Its height above the 

 level of the South Sea being only eighteen hun- 

 dred metres, it enjoys, under a latitude of 2° 

 26' 17", a delicious climate, much less sultry 

 than that of Carthago and Ibague, and infinitely 

 more temperate than that of Quito and Santa-Fe 

 de Bogota. On ascending from Popayan toward 

 the top of the volcano of Purace, one of the 

 great elevations of the Andes, we find, at two 

 thousand six hundred and fifty metres height, a 

 small plain (Llano del Corazon), inhabited by 



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