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the scattered rocks in the plain of Capuchino % 

 and on the north of Cabruta, may be consider- 

 ed either as the vestiges of a destroyed count er- 

 fort, or, (on the hypothesis of the igneous origin 

 of granite,) as partial eruptions and heavings 

 up. I shall not here discuss the question, whe- 

 ther the most northerly chain, that of Angos- 

 tura and of the great fall of Carony, be a conti- 

 nuation of the chain of Encaramada. 3d. In 

 navigating on the Oroonoko from north to 

 south, we see small plains and chains of moun- 

 tains -f* alternately on the east, of which we 

 cannot distinguish the profiles, that is the sec- 

 tion perpendicular to their longitudinal axis. 

 From the mission of the Encaramada to the 

 mouth of the Rio Qama, I reckoned seven 

 times this alternating of savannahs, and high 

 mountains. First, on the south of the isle 

 Cucuruparu, rises the chain of Chaviripe (lat. 

 7° 10'); it stretches, inclining towards the 

 south (lat. 6° 20' — 6° 40'), by the Cerros del 

 Corozal, the Amoco, and the Murcielago, as 

 far as the Erevato, a tributary stream of the 

 Caura. It there forms the rapids of ParuJ, 

 and is linked with the summits of Matacuna. 

 4th. The chain of Chaviripe is succeeded by 

 that of Baraguan (lat. 6° 50' — 7° 5'), celebrat- 

 ed for the strait of the Oroonoko to which it gives 



* Vol. v, p. 675. 

 f Vol. iv, p. 468, 

 t Vol. p. 685, 



