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of Barcelona, containing the Valle dt la Pasqua, which La 

 Cruz and Caulin mark on their maps by the words, terreno 

 que disputan las dos provincias de Barcelona y de Caracas. 

 In my estimation of the area I followed the frontier of the 

 Rio Unare, because it determines the present state of posses- 

 sion between the neighbouring provinces. The Govierno de 

 Cumana contains four ciudades (Cumana, Cariaco, Cumana- 

 coa, Nueva- Barcelona) and four villas (Aragua, La Concep- 

 cion del Pao, La Merced, and Carupano) *. New cities 

 will probably arise on the shores of the gulf of Paria 

 (Golfo triste), as well as on the banks of the Areo and the 

 Guarapiche j since these points offer great advantages to the 

 commercial industry of New Andalusia. 



b.) Spanish Guayana; such as it was administered before 

 the revolution of the 5th of July, 1811, by a governor resi- 

 dent at Angostura (Santo Tome de la Nueva Guayana.) 

 It contains more than 225,000 English square miles, and 

 consequently exceeds the area of all the Atlantic Slave 

 States, Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolina9, and Georgia. 

 More than nine-tenths of this province are uncultivated, and 

 almost uninhabited. The limits on the east and south, from 

 the principal mouth of the Oroonoko to the island of San 

 Jose de Rio Negro, have been indicated in describing the 

 general configuration of the republic of Columbia. The 

 limits of Spanish Guayana on the north and west are, first 

 the Oroonoko, from Cape Barima to San Fernando de Ata- 

 bapo, and then a line stretching from north to south, from 



* Vol. ii, p. 183— 214 ; Vol. iii, p. 7, 51—67, 159—206, 

 361 j and the present vol. p. 45. I am ignorant of the real 

 position of the Villa de la Merced, indicated in the manu- 

 script map of the archives of Cumana. Piratoo and Ma- 

 napire appear also to pretend to the title of villas. (Caulin, 

 p. 190.) 



