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quake of 1797. These facts are well worthy of 

 being examined by an enlightened traveller. 



Petroleum spring of Buen Pastor, near the 

 Rio Areo. Large masses of sulphur have been 

 found in clayey soils at Guayuta, as in the valley 

 of San Bonifacio *, and near the junction of the 

 Rio Pao with the Oroonoko. 



Aguas calientes, on the South of the Rio Azul, 

 and the hollow ground of Cariaco, which, at the 

 period of the great earthquake of Cumana, threw 

 up hydrosulphuretted waters and viscous pe- 

 troleum -f\ 



Hot waters of the Gulf of Cariaco %. 



Petroleum spring in the same Gulf, near Ma- 

 niquarez. It springs from mica-slate 



Flames issuing from the earth, near Cumana, 

 on the banks of the Manzanares, and at Mari- 

 guitar ||, on the southern coast of the Gulf of 

 Cariaco, at the time of the great earthquake of 

 1797. 



Igneous phenomena of the mountain of Cu- 

 chivano, near Cumanacoa 

 Petroleum spring gushing from a shoal to the 



* Chap viii, vol. iii, p. 185. 

 f Chap, iv, vol. ii, p. 216; and chap, viii, vol. iii, p. 186. 

 % Chap, viii, vol. iii, p. 199. 

 § Chap, v, vol. ii, p. 290. 

 || Chap, iv, vol ii, p. 219. 

 11 Chap, vi, vol. iii, p. 81. 

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