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San Francisco. These hydro-graphic reveries 

 have for the most part disappeared ; but the 

 lakes Cassipa and Dorado have been long simul- 

 taneously preserved on our maps. 



In following the history of geography, we see 

 the Cassipa, figured as a rectangular parallelo- 

 gram, enlarge by degrees at the expense of the 

 Dorado. While the latter is sometimes sup- 

 pressed, no one ventures to touch the former*, 

 which is the Rio Paragua (a tributary stream of 

 the Caroni) enlarged by temporary inundations. 

 When D'Anville learned from the expedition of 

 Solano, that the sources of the Oroonoko, far 

 from lying to the west, on the back of the Andes 

 of Pasto, came from the east, from the moun- 

 tains of Parima, he restored in the second edi- 

 tion of his fine map of America (1760) the 

 Laguna Parime, and very arbitrarily made it to 

 communicate with three rivers, the Oroonoko, 

 the Rio Branco, and the Essequebo, by the Mazu- 

 runi and the Cujuni ; assigning to it the latitude, 

 from 3° to 4° north, which had till then been 

 given to lake Cassipa, 



p. 474.) At present the name of Maragnon has remained at 

 the same time to the river of the Amazons, and to a province 

 much farther eastward, the capital of which is Maranhao, or 

 Saint Lewis de Maragnon. 



* Sanson, Course of the Amazon, 1680 ; De L'Isle, 

 Amerique Merid., 1700. D'Anville, first edition of his Ame- 

 rica, 1748. 



