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guela, and the intermediate and western 

 branches of Quindio and Choco, run into one 

 another in the province of Antioquia, between 

 the 5° and 7° of latitude, and form a groupe of 

 mountains of considerable breadth, stretching 

 by the Valle de Osos and the Alto del Viento, 

 towards Cazeres, and the elevated savannahs of 

 Tolu. Further west, in the Choco del Norte, 

 the mountains lower to such a degree, that, be- 

 tween the gulf of Cupica and the Rio Naipi, 

 they disappear altogether. It is the astrono- 

 mical position of that isthmus and the distance 

 from the mouth of the Atrato to its confluence 

 with the Rio Naipi * that should be fixed with 



* The geography of that part of America., between the 

 mouth of the Atrato, the Cape Corientes, the Cerro de Tora, 

 and Vega de Supia, is in a most deplorable state. It is only 

 more to the east, in the province of Antioquia, that the la- 

 bours of Don Jose Manuel Restrepo present some points of 

 which the position is astronomically fixed. From Cupica to 

 Cape Corientes, the distance by land is computed to be from 

 12 to 14 (?) marine leagues. From Quibdo (Zitara), where 

 resides the Teniente Gobernador, (the corregidor inhabits 

 Novita,) it takes from 7 to 8 days of navigation to go down 

 as far as the mouth of the Atrato. An error, common to 

 every common map (excepting that of M. Talledo), is placing 

 Zitara 1° too much to the north, sometimes at the mouth of 

 the Atrato, sometimes at its confluence with the Naipi. 

 From San Pablo, situated some leagues above Tado, on 

 the right bank of the Rio San Juan, to Quibdo or Zitara, is 

 only one day's journey. 



