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Animas, Cano del Calichi, and Aguas claras, 

 Feeding trenches are easily established in a 

 country like Choco, where it rains during the 

 whole year, and where thunder is every day 

 heard. The barometric observations of the un- 

 fortunate Caldas not having been published, we 



with the canal of the Mina de Raspadura, joins the Rio Zi- 

 tura and the Rir Andageda, near the village of Quibdo, vul- 

 garly called Zitura - } but in a manuscript map which I have 

 just received from Choco, and on which the canal of Raspa- 

 dura (lat. 5« 20 y ?) joins both the Rio San Juan and the Rio 

 Quibdo, a little above the Mina de las Animas, the village of 

 Quibdo is placed at the confluence of the small river of that 

 name, with the river Atrato, which has received three leagues 

 higher the Rio Andagueda,near Lloro. The grand Rio San Juan 

 receives successively from its mouth (lat. 4° 6 ; ) at the south 

 of the Punta de Charambira, in going up towards the N.N.E., 

 the Rio Calima, the Rio del No (above the village of Nao- 

 nama), the Rio Tamana, which passes near the Novita, the 

 Rio Ir5, the Quebrada de San Pablo, and finally, near the vil- 

 lage of Tad5, the Rio de la Platina. The province of Choco 

 is inhabited only in the vallies of those rivers : it has three 

 trading communications ; in the north with Carthagena by 

 the Atrato, the banks of which are entirely desert from 

 6° 45' of latitude j in the south with Guayaquil, and, before 

 1 786, with Valparaiso, by the Rio San Juan j in the east 

 with the province of Popayan, by the Tambo de Calima, and 

 by Cali. From Tad5 to Noanama, in going down the 

 Rio San Juan, takes one day ; to the Tambo de Calima (lat. 

 4° 120 4 days; and from the Tambo to Cali (lat. 3° 250, in 

 the valley of Cauca, 5 days ; during which you cross the Rio 

 Dagua, or San Buenaventura, and the western Cordillera of 

 the Andes of Popayan. I have entered into these local de- 



