Ch. in. SOUTH AMERICA. £45 



money beginning to grow fhort with our whole fociety, 

 both Spaniards and French, it was thought neceflary 

 to make ufe of the interval while the proper places 

 erecting the fignals were determined, to procure fup- 

 plies. Accordingly, M. Godin and Don George 

 Juan again fet out from Riobamba for Qiiito on the 

 7th of November; but it was the 2d of February fol- 

 lowing before we had the pleafure of congratulating 

 them on their return, the former having been feized 

 with a fever, v/hich brought him very low, and detain- 

 ed them a confiderable time at Quito. 



XVI. XVII. Signals on Amula and Sifa-pongo. 



The obfervations neceffary at the fignal of Amula 

 were finifhed before the journey to Quito ; and from 

 the 2d of February 1739, when they returned to Rio- 

 bamba, till the 19th, they were employed in thofe re* 

 lating to Sifa-pongo. 



XVIII. Signal on the mountain of Sefgum. 



On the mountain of Sefgum they had occafion to 

 flay only from the 20th to the 23d of February. For 

 this fignal flood on the declivity of a mountain, and 

 they vigilantly employed every moment when the other 

 deferts were free from thofe clouds in which they are 

 ufually involved. 



XIX. Signal on the defert of Senegualap. 



The obfervations at the fignal of Senegualap de- 

 tained them from the 23d of February to the 13th 

 of March. The length of the time was indeed the 

 mod difagreeable part, as otherwife they did not place 

 this among the worft Rations they had met with during 

 |:heir courfe of obfervations. 



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