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broad, and bounded by the latitudes of 1° 45' 

 south, and 2° north. This inland sea, larger 

 than the Caspian, is sometimes traced in the 

 midst of a mountainous country, without com- 

 munication with any river* ; and sometimes 

 the Rio Oyapok (Waiapago, Japoc, Viapoco) 

 and the Rio de Cayana*f~ are made to issue from 

 it. The first of these rivers, confounded in the 

 eighth article of the treaty of Utrecht with the 

 Rio de Vicente Pinion (Rio Calsoene of D'An- 

 ville) has been, even down to the late congress 

 of Vienna, the subject of interminable discus- 

 sions between the French and Portugueze diplo- 

 matists^. The second is an imaginary prolonga- 

 tion § either of the Tonnegrande, or of the Oyac 



* See for instance, Hondius, Nieuwe Caerte van het goud- 

 rycke landt Guiana, 1599 j and Sanson's Map of America, in 

 1656 and 1669. 



t Brasilia et Caribana, Auct. Hondio et Huelsen, 1599. 



I I have treated this question in a Memoire sur la fixation 

 des limites de la Guy am Francaise, written at the desire of the 

 Portugueze government, during the negociations of Paris in 

 1817. (See Schoell, Archives polity or Pieces ine'dites, vol. i, 

 p. 48 — 58.) Ribero, in his celebrated map of the world of 

 1529, places the Rio de Vicente Pinc^n south of the Ama- 

 zon, near the gulf of Maranhao. This navigator landed at 

 this spot, after having been at Cape Saint Augustin, and 

 before he reached the mouth of the Amazon. Herera, 

 Dec. I, p. 107. The narrative of Gomara, Hist. nat. y 1553, 

 p. 48, is very confused in a geographical point of view. 



§ " Cujanae flumen longe altius penetrat in Continentem." 

 (Laet, p. 640,) On comparing the maps of French Guy- 



