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lake of Maracaybo, towards the Rio Catatumbo j then to 

 the eastward of Salazar to the Rio Sulia, a little above San 

 Faustino $ and finally on the east, to the Paramo of Porque- 

 ra, situate to the N. E. of La Grita. The southern and 

 eastern limits stretch to the southward of the snowy moun- 

 tains of Merida, across the ravine of Lavellaca, at the east- 

 ern foot of Paramo de las Rosas, toward the sources of the 

 Rio de Tocuyo, and thence, between the mouth of the Rio 

 de Motataii and the town of Carora, towards the Cano 

 Oribono, as we have just stated, in describing the bounda- 

 ries of the provinces of Varinas and Caraccas. The most 

 western part of the Govierno of Maracaybo,which comprehends 

 Cape la Vela, is called the Provincia de los Guajiros (Guahi- 

 ros), on account of the wild Indians of that name by whom 

 it is inhabited, from the Rio Socuyo, as far as the Rio Ca- 

 lancala. The independent tribe of the Cocinas is found to- 

 ward the south. Towns : Maracaybo, Gibraltar, Truxillo, 

 Merida, San Faustino. 



B.) Ancient Viceroyalty of New Grenada, 



comprehending New Grenada, properly so called, (Cundina- 

 marca) and Quito. The western limits of the provinces of 

 Maracaybo, Varinas, and Guayana, bound the territory of 

 the viceroyalty on the east : the frontiers on the south and 

 west are those of Peru and Guatimala. We shall only add 

 here, in order to rectify the errors of the maps, that the 

 Valle de Upar, or Villa de Reyes, Salazar de las Palmas, 

 El Rosario de Cucuta, celebrated as the residence of the 

 constituent assembly of Columbia, in the month of August 

 1816, San Antonio de Cucuta, la Grita, San Christoval, and 

 la Villa de Arauca, as also the confluence of the Casanare 

 and the Meta, the Inirida and the Gaviare, belong to New 

 Grenada. The province of Casanare, dependent on Santa 

 Fe de Bogota, extends towards the north beyond the Ori- 



