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of Calabozo, as well from Valencia to Portoca- 

 bello, and from Caraccas to La Guayra. The 

 Consulados of Mexico aud Vera Cruz have 

 known how to vanquish difficulties a hundred- 

 fold greater, in constructing the fine roads from 

 Perote to the coast, and from the capital to 

 Toluca. 



With respect to the internal navigation of 

 Venezuela, it would be useless to repeat here 

 what we have stated above, on the branchings 

 and communications of the great rivers; we 

 shall confine ourselves to direct the attention of 

 the reader to the two great navigable lines that 

 exist from east to west (by the Apure, the Meta, 

 and the Lower Oroonoko), and from south to 

 north, by the Rio Negro, the Cassiquiare, the 

 Upper, and the Lower Oroonoko. By the first 

 of these lines the productions of the province of 

 Varinas* flow towards Angostura, by the Por- 

 tuguesa, Masparro, the Rio Santo-Domingo, 

 and the Orivante ; and the productions of the 

 province of Los Llanos, and the table- land of 

 Bogota -f-, by the Rio Casanare, the Crabo, and 

 the Pachaquiaro. The second line of naviga- 

 tion, founded on the bifurcation of the Oroo- 

 noko, leads to the most southern extremity of 

 Columbia, to San Carlos del Rio Negro, and the 

 Amazon. In the present state of Guyana, the 



* Vol. iv, p. 389, 454. 

 f Vol. iv, p. 5G4— 50'9. 



