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fition of wealth, than natural know* 

 ledge. 



Guiana was firft difcovered by 

 Chrijlopher Columbus, in the year 1498. 

 It is fituated between the feventh degree 

 of north, and the fifth degree of fouth 

 latitude, and between the fifty-third, 

 and fixtieth degrees of longitude weft 

 from London. It is bounded on the 

 north and eaft by the Atlantic Ocean, 

 on the weft by the great river of Oro- 

 noque, on the fouth by the river of 

 the Amazons* and on the fouth weft by 

 the river Negro. The communication 

 of this river with the two former, which 

 was originally believed, and afterwards 

 univerfally denied* on ftrength of mere 

 conjecture, is now fufficiently demon- 

 ftrated; and Guiana, which by the ri- 

 ver of the Amazons, is divided from 

 Brajil, by the river Oronoque, from Terra 



Firma, 



