660 



Statement of the Heights of the most remarkable Places 

 of Venezuela above the Level of the Sea. 



NAMES OF PLACES. 



Height 

 intoises. 



Road from La Guayra to Ca- 

 r ac cas : 



Maiqueti,atthe entrance of the 

 street that leads to Caraccas 



Curu^uti - 



El Salto, antient fort 



La Venta - 



La Cumbre, the highest part 



of the road 

 Caraccas, in the middle of the 



street of Carabobo 

 Eastern Peak of the Silla of 



Caraccas - 



Road prom Caraccas to Me- 

 rida : 



Hill of Buenavista 

 Village of San Pedro 

 Maracay in the vallies of Ara~ 

 gua 



La Victoria - 

 Nueva Valencia 

 Villa of Cura 

 San Carlos - 



Calabozo(the small table-land, 



mesa in the Llanos 

 Barquisimeto 



Tocuyo - - - 



Truxillo 



Merida - 



Paramo of Mucuchies, limited 

 to Sierra Nevada de Merida 



Mountains of New Andalu- 

 sia : 



Cum an a - - - 



Cerro del Impossible 

 Cumanacoa 

 Table land of Cocollar 

 Summit of Turimiquiri 

 Cuchilta of Guanaguana 

 Convent of Caripe 

 Table-land of Guarda of San 



Augustin - 

 Catuaro - 



Sierra Pa rime and the banks 

 of the Oroonoko and the Rio 

 Negro : 



Soil of the forests round Javi- 



ta and the Esmeralda 

 The Peak ofDuida - 

 Fort of San Carlos del Rio 

 Negro - 



13 



320 

 479 

 622 



764 



477 



350 



835 

 584 



223 

 270 

 234 



266 

 85 



94 

 76 

 322 

 420 

 826 



2120 



3 

 297 

 104 

 408 

 1050 

 548 

 412 



533 

 190 



180 

 1300 



127 



NAMES OP THE OBSERVERS, 

 AND VARIATIONS. 



The whole leveling of the road is 

 indicated in this table from 

 M.M. Boussingault & Rivero. 



Profil (PI. IV, 465 t.) 

 (Humboldt, 606 t.) 



Ht., 763 t. 



Ht., at the great square, 446 t. 



Humboldt, Jan. 3d, 1800 ; Bous- 

 singault and Rivero, (Jan 

 12th, 1823), 1351 toises. 



Humboldt. 



Ht. (Boussingault and Rivero 



590 t.) 

 B. and R. 



Ht. (B. and R. 284 t.) 

 Ht. (B. and R. 247 t 

 flu nib. 

 B. and R. 



Ht. 



B. and R. 

 B. and R. 

 B. and R. 

 B. and R. 



B.and R. 



Humboldt. 

 Ht. 

 Ht. 

 Ht. 



Ht., a little doubtful, trigon. mea 



Ht. 



Ht. 



Ht. 

 Ht. 



Ht. 



Ht. (trigonometrical measure.) 

 Ht., a little doubtful. 



