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Marinilla are built on table-lands 1060 toises 

 high. The western mass of the knot of the 

 mountains of Antioquia, between the Cauca and 

 the Atrato, gives rise, on its western descent, to 

 the Rio San Juan, Be vara, and Murri. It attains 

 its greatest height (and that of the whole pro- 

 vince of Antioquia) in the Alto del Viento, north 

 of Urrao, known to the first Conquistadoresby the 

 name of the Cordilleras of Abide*, or Dabeida. 

 This height (lat. 7° 15'), does not however ex- 

 ceed 1500 toises. In following the western 

 slope of this system of mountains of Antioquia, 

 we find that the point of partition of the waters 

 that flow towards the South Sea, and the 

 Caribbean Sea (in 5|° and 6° of latitude) 

 corresponds nearly with the parallel of the 

 isthmus of Raspadura, between the Rio San 

 Juan and the Atrato. It is remarkable that, 

 in this groupe more than SO leagues broad, 

 destitute of sharp summits, between 51° and 

 7° of latitude, the highest masses rise tow- 

 ards the west ; while, further south, before the 

 union of the two chains of Quindiu and Choco, 

 we saw them on the east of Cauca. 



The ramifications of the knot of Antioquia, 

 on the north of the parallel 7° are very imper- 



* Sierra de Abide of the geographer La Cruz, with the 

 pretended Volcano of Ebojito. (See above, vol. vi, p. 260, 

 note.) 



