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IX. Signal on Papa-urco. 



It had been determined that Papa-urco fhould be 

 the place where the intermediate fignal betwixt thofc 

 of Pucaguaico and Vengotafin lliould be ereded. 

 This mountain, which is of a middling height, we af- 

 cended the iith of Auguft, and continued on it till 

 the 1 6th, when we returned to Pucaguaico ; fo that 

 this eafy mountain was a kind of reding- place, be- 

 tween the two painful Nations of Corazon aiid Pu- 

 caguaico. 



X. Signal on the mountain of Milin ; 



Whose height is nearly the fame with that of the 

 Papa-urco : we afcended it on the 23d of Auguft, and 

 by the 29th had finiihed the neceflary obfervations. 



XI, Signal on the mountain Vengotafin, 



The mountain of Vengotafin is not remarkably 

 high, but our flay on it was longer than we at firfi: 

 imagined ; for, after finifliing our obfervations on the 

 4th of September, fome difficulties which arofe with 

 regard to the pofition of the following fignal towards 

 the fouth, detained us till the i8th. However, the 

 town pf Latacunga being contiguous to the fldrts of 

 this mountain, and having feveral farms in its neigh- 

 bourhood, we were at no lofs for many conveniencies 

 of vvhich we were deftitute in feveral other ftations. 



XII. Signal on the mountain of Chalapu. 



Our (lay on this mountain was (hotter than on any 

 other in the whole feries of triangles-, for v/e continu- 

 ed only part of four days, going up the 20th, and 

 coming down the 23d. It is none of the higheft 

 mountains, and has, in its neighbourhood, the town 

 q£ Hambato, and its Ikirps diyerfified with feats and 



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