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POLITICAL DIVISIONS. 



Square 

 Leagues. 



Squa re 

 Leagues. 



1. 



II. 



Venezuela 



New Andalusia or Cumana 



New Barcelona 



Delta of the Oroonoko 



Spanish Guayana 



Caraccas ... 



Varinas 



Maracaybo 



Island of Margaretta (ex 



eluding the Laguna) 



New Grenada (with Quito) . . 



1,299 

 1,564 

 652 

 18,793 

 5,140 

 2,678 

 3,548 



27 



33,701 



58,251 



Republic of Columbia 



91,952 



Whatever changes the territorial divisions of Venezuela 

 may yet undergo, whether from the variable wants of the 

 internal administration, or the desire of innovation, always 

 so active at the period of a political regeneration, the exact 

 knowledge of the area of the ancient provinces will serve to 

 estimate approximately the area of the new. On consi- 

 dering attentively the divisions made for ten years past, we 

 perceive, that, in the different attempts to reconstruct so- 

 cieties, the same elements are combined, till a stable equi- 

 librium is found. 



Partial Limits : 



A.) Ancient Capitania General of Caraccas: 



a.) Govierno de Cumana, comprising the two provinces 

 of New Andalusia and Barcelona, a little less than the state 

 of Pensylvania, which contains 46,000 square miles (69 2 to 

 a degree). The limit on the south and south-east is formed 

 by the course of the Lower Oroonoko, as far as it's principal 



