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SILLA DE CARACAS. 



PLATE LXVIII. 



This granitic mountain, very difficult to scale, 

 because its slope is covered with a close turf, is 

 more than thirteen hundred and fifty toises in ab- 

 solute height. From the coast of Paria to the 

 Sierre Nevada of S a . Martha, no summit is found 

 so lofty as the Silla de Caracas, called also 

 Montanna de Avila. The two rounded summits 

 bear the name of the saddle (silla) ; and serve as 

 land marks for the harbour of Guayra. I have 

 sketched this mountain on the south side, as it 

 presents itself from the coffee plantation of Don 

 Andrew Ibarra. 



