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Fernando del Atabapo, and Esmeralda (some Indian huts 

 around a church). 



£.) Province of Caraccas ; 61,000 English square miles, 

 consequently about one seventh less than the state of Virgi- 

 nia. 1 Northern limit : the Caribbean sea from the mouth of 

 the Rio Unare, long. 67? 39', to the other side of the Rio Ma- 

 ticores (long. 73 0 10 ; ) in the direction of the gulf or Saco of 

 Maracaybo, on the east of Castillo de San Carlos. Western 

 limit ; a line directed towards the south, between the 

 mouth of the Rio Motatan and the town of Carora, by the 

 sources of the Rio Tocuyo and the Paramo de las Ro - 

 sas*, between Bocono and Guanare ; towards the E. S. E., 

 between the Portuguesa and the Rio Guanare or the Cafio de 

 Ygues, a tributary stream of the Portuguesa : this line forms 

 the frontier qf the provinces of Varinas and Caraccas - } and 

 runs on the S. E. between San Jaime and Uritucu, towards 

 a point of the left bank of the Rio Apure, opposite San Fer- 

 nando. Southern limit : first the Rio Apure, from lat. 7° 54* 

 long. 70° 20 ', to its confluence with the Oronooko, near Capu- 

 ehino (lat. 7° 37 / long. 69° G 7 ) - 3 then, the Lower-Oroonoko 

 towards the east, as far as the western frontier of Govi- 

 erno de Cumana, near the Rio Suata, on the east of Alta 

 Gracia. Towns : Caraccas, La Guayra, Portocabello, Coro, 

 Nueva Valencia, Nirgua, San Felipe, Barquesimeto, To- 

 cuyo, Araure, Ospinos, Guanare, San Carlos, San Sebas- 

 tian, Villa de Cura, Calabozo, and San Juan Baptista -del 



Pao. 



d.) Province of Varinas, comprising an area of 32,000 

 English square miles, rather less than the state of Kentucky. 

 Eastern limit : from the southern extremity of Paramo do 

 ]as Rosas, and the sources of the Rio Guanare, toward the 



* See my Geog. Atlas, pL 17, 



