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AMERICA 



Chap. IX- 



Orlnoqut. 



Iflands be- 

 longing to 

 Guiana. 



lately hadoccafion to make frequent mention of, being reported by fome to have 

 traveled one whole day, and half another in it, before he could arrive at the King's 

 Palace- which yet muft be fuppos'd to have flood but in the midft of the City. 

 Places of lefs Magnificence, but more Certainty, are i, Qartpo, which was once a 

 Colony of Englfi>, fetled there by Captain Robert Harcourt, Anno 1608. upon the 

 Banks of Wiapoco, and not far from the Mouth of it 5 being a place, by the advan- 

 taae of a Rock, which it hath on the one fide of it, of great ftrength and very dif- 

 ficult acccis^ the Air about it found, andfaid to be very agreeable to Englfi Bodies. 

 2. Gomanbo,\ Colony formerly of the 'Dutch, on the North.Weft fide of the Bay of 

 JViapoco^but fince deferted by them. 3. Woyemon. 4. Crewinay, both of them Towns 

 of the Natives, not far diftant from the other. 



Orinoque, or the third Divifion of this Province, comprehended the moft Nor- 

 therly parts of Guiana, lying upon, or towards the Banks of this famous River : a 

 Countrey likewife reported to be very rich, and comparable to <Peru it felf for hid. 

 den Treafure, which, they fay, is not yet difcover'd, onely for want of diligent and 

 induftrious fearching. The Places in it already known are onely 1. Coniolaba, as 

 they call it, which feems to be fome Town of the Natives, lying a few Leagues di- 

 ftant from the Orinoque, towards the South. 2. Morequito, a known Port or Haven. 

 Town upon a Branch of the Orinoque, much frequented, and of great ufeto the£wg. 

 lift? when they difcover'd thefe Coafts. 3. Wenicapora : and 4. St. Thomas, the onely 

 Town which the Spaniards hold upon this part of the Continent, fituate upon the 

 principal Channel of the Orinoque, and confiding of two hundred Families, or 

 thereabouts : It is now a fortifi'd Place, and was taken by Sir Walter Raleigh, in that 

 unfortunate Action of 1 617. above related more at large. 



The Illands that belong to, and are commonly reckon'd as parts of Guiana, are 

 either fuch as lie fcatter'd about the Shore of the Province, or fuch as are found at 

 the Mouth, andfometiraefar within the Channel of thofe great Rivers, which em. 

 pty themlelvesat feveral parts of this Countrey into the Sea, vi*. Orinoque, Wiapoco, 

 (%io de lasAmazpnes, Sec. There are many of them, but of any great name oreftecm, 

 onely two, V& Trinidado and Tabago, the Defcription whereof we fliall here omit, 

 as having already taken notice of them amongft the SotaVenti ind Caribbee Iflands. 



Situation and 

 Defcription 

 of Kova Afii 

 dalufta. 



CHAP. IX. 



Paria, or New Andalufia, 



WEflward of Guiana lieth the Countrey off aria, fo call'd from its chief 

 River : It hath alfo the Denomination of Nna? Jndalufia, but for 

 what refemblancc with Jndalufia of Old Spain, they do not tell us. 

 This Countrey lying as it doth, brings us back again by the Eaftern Coaft to 

 the Ifibmus or Strait, which, as wc have often faid, joyns the two parts of the Con- 

 tinent of America together, at lead to thofe Countreys that lie next upon it to the 

 South, V/^. the Kingdom of Granada, Sec. It hath on theEaft Guiana, and thofe 

 Iflands which lie about the Mouth of Orinoque • on the Weft, the Gulf or Bay of 

 Venezuela, with fome part of thev^jew Kingdom abovefaid -, on the North it is 

 wafli'd with the Atlantick Ocean • ana* on the South hath fome Countreys yet ita* 

 difcover'd, toward the Jndes* The whole confifteth partly of Continent, and 



partly 



