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this courfe. Here the Indians left him, 

 and returned, as he thought proper to 

 fix his refidence among the Portuguefe. 

 This is probably the fame perfon, that 

 Monfieur de la Condamine faw, in de- 

 fending the river of the Amazons in 

 1743, whom he names Nicolas Hortf- 

 man, and fays he mounted the river of 

 EJequebo, in 174©, in queft of the 

 Golden Lake of Parima. 



But though the Dutch territories are 

 deftitute of mountains, thofe of France 

 are not, as there is a confiderable ridge 

 of them, about thirty miles from the 

 fea, on the continent oppofite the 

 ifland of Cayenne, and a ftill larger 

 ridge near three hundred miles farther 

 within the country, extending from eaft 

 to weft, according to the reports of the 

 Indians, for they were never vifited ex- 

 cept by the aboriginal Natives. 



Befides 



