CARACCAS. 



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the name of province of Venezuela ; which, 

 though it be not by its extent the most 

 considerable of the five that compose the 

 general government of the Caraccas, now 

 gives its name to the Republic of the Seven 

 Provinces that have so wisely shaken off the 

 yoke of the Regency of Cadiz. 



** When the district of Caraccas had taken 

 the name of Venezuela, the country situated 

 round the Lake received that of province 

 of Maracaybo : the two provinces which 

 were successively dismembered from those 

 of Venezuela and Maracaybo were called 

 Varinas and Guiana. A portion of the 

 country known by the name of New Anda- 

 lusia, as also the island of Margarita, formed 

 part of the separate government of Cumana. 

 The island of Trinidad was a sixth province 

 or distinct government, depending on the 

 captain-generalship of Caraccas, until the 

 English conquered it in February 1797. 



