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New Spain. The surface of this vast country has been 

 calculated with great care by Mr. Oltmanns, according to 

 the limits marked on my large map of Mexico. There will 

 soon probably be some changes on the north of San Fran- 

 cisco and beyond the Rio del Norte, between the mouth of the 

 Rio Sabina and that of the Rio Colorado de Texas. The asser- 

 tions made on my map of Mexico, drawn in 1804, and pub- 

 lished in 1809, relative to the identity of the Rio Napestle 

 and the Rio de Pecos, with the rivers which bear the names 

 of Arkansas, and the Red River of the Natchitotches in 

 Louisiana, have been fully justified by the journey of major 

 Pike, which appeared at Philadelphia in 1810. 



Guatimala. This country, so little known, contains the 

 provinces of Chiapa, Guatimala, Vera Paz or Tezulutlan, 

 Honduras (towns : Comayagua, Omoa, and Truxillo), Ni- 

 caragua, and Costa Rica *. The coast of Guatimala extends 

 on the south sea from Barra de Tonala (lat. 16° 7', long. 

 96° 39% on the east of Tchuantepec, to la Punta de Burica 

 or Boruca (lat. 8° 5 7 , long. 85° 13'), on the east of the Golfo 

 Dulce de Costa Riea. From this point, the frontier ascends 

 successively to the north, stretching along the Columbian 

 province of Veragua, toward Cape Careta, (lat. 9° 35', long. 

 84o 43 / ), which advances into the Caribbean sea a little to 

 the west of the fine port of Bocca del Torro ; to the N.N.W. 

 along the coast, as far as the river Bluefields, or Nueva 

 Segovia (lat. 11° 54', long. 85° 25'), in the territory of the 

 Mosehetto Indians ; toward the N.W., along the river 

 Nueva Segovia for forty leagues j and finally, to the N. at 

 Cape Camaron (lat. 16° 3', long. 87© 31 ; ) between Cape 

 Gracias a Dios and the port of Truxillo. From Cape 



* Juarros, Compendio de la Hist, de Guatemala, printed 

 at Guatimala, 1809, vol. i, p. 5, 9, 31, 56; vol. ii, p. 39. 

 Jose Cecilio Voile, Periodico de la Sociedad economica de 

 Guatemala,, vol. i, p. 38. 



