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wars which preceded the revolution of Spanish 

 America, considerable quantities of cacao of 

 Guayaquil were conveyed this way to Cartha- 

 gena. The canal of Raspadura, of which I be- 

 lieve I gave the first intimation in Europe, af- 

 fords a passage only for small boats; but it 

 might be easily enlarged * if the streams were 

 joined to it known by the names of Cano de las 



the source of the Rio Sinu (Zenu) on the north of the town 

 of Antioquia. According to the work of Petrus Martyr d'An- 

 ghiera (Oceanica, p. 52), this woman was confounded in a 

 local mythology with a divinity of the lofty mountains, 

 whence dart the lightnings. We recognize, in our days, the 

 name of Dabieba, in that of the hills Abibi or Avidi, given 

 to the Altos del Viento, in latitude 7° 15 7 west of the 

 Boca del Espiritu Santa, on the banks of the Cauca. Where 

 is the volcano of Ebojito, which La Cruz and Lopez place in 

 the almost desert countries between the Rio San Jorge, a tri- 

 butary stream of the Cauca, and the source of the Rio Murry, 

 a tributary stream of the Atrato ? The existence of this vol- 

 cano appears to me very doubtful. 



* Relation del estado del Nuevo Reyno de Grenada que hace 

 et Arzobispo Obispo de Cordova a su sucesor el Exc. Sr. Fray, 

 Don Francisco Gil. y Lemos 1780, fol. 68. (A manuscript 

 written by the Secretary of the Archbishop- Viceroy, Don Ig- 

 nacio Cavero.) Representation que dirigio Don Jose Ignacio 

 Pombo al Consulado de Cartagena en 14 de Mayo 1807, sobre 

 el reconocimiento del Atratoes Zinu y San Juan, fol. 38 (MS.) 

 The ravine of Raspadura, or Bocachica, now receives only 

 the waters of Quebradas de Quiadocito, Platanita, and of 

 Quiado. According to the ideas 1 acquired at Honda and 

 Vilela, near Cali, from persons in the trade of (rescate) the 

 gold dust of Choco, the Rio Quibdo, which communicate* 



