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to those of Carony, than that of an homonomy, 

 which is perhaps only accidental*. 



The most considerable Christian settlements 

 are now concentred between the mountains of 

 Santa Maria, the mission of San Miguel, and 

 the eastern bank of the Carony, from San Bue- 

 naventura as far as Gurrf- and the embarcadero 

 of San Joaquin ; a space of ground which has 

 not more than four hundred and sixty square 

 leagues of surface. The savannahs to the east and 

 the south are almost uninhabited ; we find 

 there only the solitary missions of Belem, Tu- 

 muremo, Tupuquen, Puedpa, and Santa Clara. 

 It were to be wished, that the spots preferred for 

 cultivation were distant from the rivers, where 

 the land is higher, and the air more favorable to 

 health. The Rio Carony, the waters of which, 

 of an admirable clearness, are not well stocked 

 with fish, is free from shoals from the Villa de 

 Barceloneta, a little above the confluence of the 

 Paragua, as far as the village of Guri. Farther 

 north it winds between innumerable islands and 

 rocks ; and the small boats of the Caribbees 



* Beside the Caribbees, the Guayanoes, and the Guaycas, 

 there are also, in the missions of Carony, Pariagotoes, Gua- 

 raunoes, and Aruacas. See on these different races, vol. iii, 

 p. 275 and 287. 



t Euri, in the map inserted in the Journal of the Royal 

 Institution, No. 17. The village of Rosario de Guacipati is 

 called in that map Wasipati. 



