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mouth * {boca de Navios) ; on the north, by the coasts of the 

 Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, from long. 26° 23' as 

 far as the mouth of the Rio Unare, (long. 62° 33'). From 

 the mouth of this river towards the south, the limit between 

 the provinces of Caraccas and Barcelona first follows the 

 Unare towards it's origin in the hilly country west of the 

 village of Pariaguan, and then stretches to the Oroonoko, 

 between the mouth of the Rio Suata and that of the Rio 

 Caura, 24' east of Alta Gracia, called Ciudad Real in the 

 old maps. I fixed in my calculations this point of the lon- 

 gitude of the Oroonoko by deducing it from the longitude of 

 the Rio Caura. It is nearly 68 0 3' west of the meridian of 

 Paris. Other geographers, Lopez for instance, in his map 

 of the province of Caraccas, makes the limit proceed to the 

 Raudal de Camiseta, eight leagues east of the Rio Caura. In a 

 manuscript map, which I copied in the archives of Cumana, 

 the frontier is marked near Muitaco, at the mouth of the 

 Rio Cabrutica, three leagues east of the Rio Pao. The 

 governors of Cumana long pretended to extend their jurisdic- 

 tion much beyond the mouth of the Rio Unare, as far as 

 the Rio Tuy, and even as far as Cape Coderat. According 

 to this supposition they draw a line toward the south, 15 

 leagues east of Calabozo, between the sources of the Rio 

 Uritucu and those of the Rio Manapire, following the latter 

 river as far as it's confluence with the Oroonoko, four leagues 

 to the east of Cabruta+. This, the most western limit, 

 would add an extent of 400 square leagues to the province 



* See above, vol. v, p. 717 and 724. I have, however, 

 calculated separately the almost uninhabited delta of the 

 Oroonoko, between the principal branch and the Manamo 

 Grande, the westernmost of the bocqs chicas. This marshy 

 delta is three times the average extent of a department of 

 France. 



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