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duct of the granitic soil, that covers the moun- 

 tainous country between the Carichana, Uruana, 

 and Cuchivero. In fact, the natives have re- 

 cently found a mass of native gold* in the 

 Quebrada del Tigre, near the mission of Enca- 

 ramada. Berrio mentions on the east of the 

 province of Amapaja the Rio Carony (Caroly), 

 which was said to issue from a great lake, 

 because one of the tributary streams of the 

 Carony, the Rio Paragua (river of the great 

 water), had been taken for an inland sea, from 

 ignorance of the Indian languages. Several 

 Spanish historians-}- believed, that this lake, the 

 source of the Carony, was the Grand Manoa 

 of Berrio ; but the notions he communicated to 

 Raleigh show, that the Laguna de Manoa (del 

 Dorado, or de Parime) was supposed to be to 

 the south of the Rio Paragua, transformed into 

 Laguna Cassipa. "Both these basins had auri- 

 ferous sands ; but on the banks of the Cassipa 

 was situate Macureguarai (Margureguaira), 

 the capital of the cacique of Aromaja^, and the 

 first city of the imaginary empire of Guyana." 



* See above, vol. iv, p. 471. 



f " Le gran Manoa es una gran laguna que da principio a 

 un rioj que entra por la vanda del sur en el Orinoco cerca la Ciu- 

 dad de San Thome." Simon, p. 608. 



X Aru-Mayu ? Is this name connected with that of the 

 Rio Ami, the sources of which are so near the Rio Paragua, 

 that it was believed to issue from the same lake as this 

 river ? 



