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ably to the 85th and 93d articles of the Consti- 

 tution, fixed the division into departments and 

 provinces, estimating- at the same time the 

 respective population on which the number of 

 representatives depends. These official esti- 

 mates for the eight departments of the Oroo- 

 noko (175,000); of Venezuela (430,000) ; of 

 Zulia (162,000) ; of Boyaca (444,000) ; ofCun- 

 dinamarca (371,000); of Cauca (191,000) ; of 

 Magdalena (239,300) ; and of Guayaquil 

 (90,000), nearly such as I stated above (Vol. 

 vi, p. 135), according to the Gazette of Colum- 

 bia, of February 10th, 1822 ; but they differ a 

 little for the departments of Quito (516,071), 

 and of Ystmo (90,825). The former compre- 

 hended in 1822, seven provinces; namely, 

 Quito, Quixos, and Macas (together, 354,748) ; 

 Jaen (9,000) ; Maynas (36,000) ; Cuenca 

 (89,343) ; Loxa (26,980). The department of 

 the Ystmo is divided into two provinces: name- 

 ly, Panama (58,625), and Veragua (32,200) : 

 total of Columbia, 2,71 1,296. This official es- 

 timate, founded on no direct numbering, coin- 

 cides within nearly l-57th with that on which I 

 had fixed. According to a recent decree of the 

 congress of Bogota (of the 23d June, 1824), 

 the territory of the republic of Columbia is 

 composed of twelve departments, comprehend- 

 ing altogether thirty-eight provinces, name- 

 ly : 1. Orinoco (principal seat, Cumana), di- 



