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Peru merit the attention of travellers. It 

 appears from the most recent notions we can 

 collect, that the ancient mission of San Jose 

 of Chiquitos (nearly lat. 17°; long. 67° 10' 3 

 supposing- Santa Cruz de la Sierra, lat. 17° 

 25' ; long. 66° 47'), is situated in the plains, 

 and that the mountains of the counter-fort of 

 Coehabamba terminate between the Guapaix 

 (Rio deMizque) and the Parapiti, which lower 

 down takes the names of Rio San Miguel and 

 Rio Sara. The savannahs of the province of 

 Chiquitos communicate on the north with 

 those of MoxoSj and on the south with 

 those of Chaco * ; but, as we have observed 

 above, a ridge or line of partition of the 

 water is formed, by the intersection of two 

 plains slightly sloped, which takes its origin 

 on the north of La Plata (Chuquisaca) between 

 the sources of the Guapaix and the Cachimayo, 

 (a tributary stream of the Pilcomayo), and as- 

 cends from the parallel of 20° to that of 15J° 

 of south latitude, consequently on the north- 

 east, towards the isthmus of Villabella -f\ 

 From this point, one of the most important of 

 the whole hydrography of America, we can 

 follow the line of the partition of the water to 



* Cdrta de las Missiones de los Moxos de la Compania de 

 Jesus de el Peril, 1709. 



+ Between the tributary stream of the Paraguay and the 

 Madeira, Vol. vi, p. 535. 



