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sumes its ancient direction (10° 37'— 10° 440 

 from the western extremity of the peninsula of 

 Araya, to the eastern extremity of Montana de 

 Paria and the island of Trinidad. It results 

 from this position of the coast, that the range 

 of mountains near the shore of the provinces of 

 Caraccas and Barcelona, between the meridian 

 66° 32' and 68° 29', and which I saw on the 

 south of the bay of Higuerote; and on the 

 north of the Llanos * of Pao and Cachipo, must 

 be considered as the continuation of the southern 

 chain of Venezuela, and as being linked towards 

 the west with the Sierras de Panaquire and 

 Ocumare. The chain of the interior conse- 

 quently, between Cape Codera and Cariaco, 

 forms itself the coast. This range of very low 

 mountains, often interrupted from the mouth 

 of the Rio Tuy to that of the Rio Neveri, rises 

 abruptly on the east of Nueva Barcelona, first 

 in the rocky island of Chimanas -f-, and then in 

 the Cerro del Bergantin, elevated probably 

 more than 800 toises, but of which the astro- 

 nomical position and the precise height are yet 

 alike unknown f. The northern chain (that of 



* Vol. iii, p. 375, 376 ; Vol. vi, p. 53 and 68. 

 t Vol. iii, p. 357 ; Vol. vi, p. 85. 

 X Vol. ii, p. 206; Vol. iii, p. 94. The peak of Cuma- 

 nacoa, which the five maps of the Deposito hydrografico of 

 Madrid place lat. 10° 7', is perhaps the Turimiquiri ; for 



