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mifplaced, fo as not to be feen from that eredled on 

 Corazon and confequently there was a neceflity for 

 semoving it. And though, in order to do this, they 

 afcended the mountain on the 28th of January, they 

 found it neceflary to return thither on the 5th of Fe- 

 bruary^ when they were fortunate enough to finilh 

 every thing remaining the very next day. 



Vlf, Signal on the defert of Corazon. 



This mountain alfo the gentlemen were obliged to 

 1/ifit twice ; the firft journey was on the 20th of Ja=» 

 Ruary, and the fecond on the 12th of March, 1738. 



VIIL Signal of Limpie^po/igo, on the defert of 



Cotopaxi. 



They went up to the defert of Catopaxi on the 

 1 6th of March, and remained there till the 3 ift ; when 

 they obferved that the fignal of Guamani was not vi- 

 fible from thence, and therefore it was necefiary to 

 cre6t another in the intermediate fpace ; which being 

 completed on the 9th of Auguft, they again repaired 

 to the fignal of Limpie-pango, on Cotopaxi where 

 tliey finifhed all their operations by the 13 th of the 

 fame month, and left every thing in exadt order. In 

 afcending the mountain in this fecond journey, the 

 mule on which Don George Juan rode, fell down a 

 breach four or five toifes deep, but providentially 

 without receiving the lead hurt. 



As they had been obliged to ered: another fignal 

 between thofe of Guamani and Limpie-pongo, in or- 

 der to continue the feries of triangles ; fo there was 

 alfo a neceffity for returning to fome ftations, to ob- 

 ferve again the angles which had before been de- 

 termined. Thefe operations, together with the ex- 

 periments on the velocity of found, and the obferva- 

 lions at the new fignal^ filled up the interval from 



the 



