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Ridge it felf the more ufeful and habitable, fo are 

 they fome of them fo deep in their Defcent, as e~ 

 ven to admit a Paflage for Rivers. For thus the 

 R.C%n?. River Chagre, which rifes from fome Hills near the 

 South-Sea, runs along in an Oblique North Wefter- 

 ly Courfe, till it finds it felf a Paffage into the North- 

 Sea, tho 3 the Chain of Hills, if I miftake not, is ex- 

 tended much farther to the Weft, even to the Lake 

 of Nicarante. 



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The Ri- The Rivers that water this Country are fome of 

 ^ ers » them indifferent large ; though but few navigable, 

 and° CS as having Bars and Sholes at the Mouths. On the 

 Springs of 'North-Sea Coaft the Rivers are for the moft Part 

 the N. very fmall ; for rifing generally from the main 

 Coaft. Ridge, which lies near that Shore, their Courfe is 

 R. of Da- very fhort. The River of Darien is indeed a very 

 run. large one ; but the depth at the Entrance is not an- 

 fwerable to the widenefs of its Mouth, though 'tis 

 deep enough further in: But from thence to Ghagre, 

 the whole length of this Coaft, they are little better 

 River of than Brooks: Nor is the River of Conception any 

 concef- other, which comes out over-againft La Sound's Key 

 ViChagre m t ^ ie S&wbalfoes. The River of Chagre is pretty con- 

 'fiderable ; for it has a long bending Coaft, rifing as 

 it does from the South and Eaft-part of the IJlhmus, 

 and at fuch a diftance from its Outlet. But in ge- 

 neral, the North-Coaft is plentifully watered ; yet it 

 is chiefly with Springs and Rivulets, trickling down 

 from the Neighbouring Hills. 



The Soil on this North-Coaft is various ; gene- 

 rally 'tis good Land, rifing in Hills ; but to the 

 Sea there are here and there Swamps, yet feldom a- 

 bove half a Mile broad. 

 The Soil Inclufively from Caret Bay, which lies in the 

 by caret Ri ve r of Darien, and is the only Harbour in it, to 

 Bay ' the Promontory near Golden I/land, the Shore of the 

 Ifthmus is indifferently fruitful, partly Sandy Bay \ 

 but part of it is drowned, fwampy, Mangrove Land, 



where 



