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pures (lat. 15° 13'), which forms the bar of the 

 Second Great Cataract. None of those lofty 

 summits are placed on the west of the Oroono- 

 ko ; on the east of that river rises the Cunava- 

 mi, the truncated peak of Calitamini, and the 

 Jujamari, to which father Gili attributes an ex- 

 traordinary height. 8th. The last chain of the 

 south-west part of the Sierra Pari me is separat- 

 ed by woody plains from the chain of May- 

 pures ; it is that of the Cerros de Sipapo (lat. 

 4° 50'), an enormous wall, behind which the 

 powerful chief of the Guaypunabis Indians in- 

 trenched himself during the expedition of So- 

 lano. The chain of Sipapo * may be considered 

 as the beginning of the range of lofty moun- 

 tains that bound, at the distance of some 

 leagues, the right bank of the Oroonoko, where 

 it runs from S. E. to N. W. between the mouth 

 of the Venituari, the Jao, and the Padamo (iat. 

 3° 15'). In going up the Oroonoko, above the* 

 cataract of Maypures, long before we reach the 

 point where it turns, near San Fernando del 

 Atabapo, we find the mountains are removed 

 from the bed of the river*f~, and from the mouth 

 of the Zama there are only insulated rocks 

 in the plains. The chain of Sipapo (if we con- 

 sider the lofty summits as making a part of it, 



* Vol. v, p. 174. 

 f Vol. v, p. 193. 



