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of the breadth of the Andes has no doubt con- 

 tributed to give so much importance to the gra- 

 nitic plains, that extend on their eastern side. 

 Unceasingly confounding the tributary streams 

 of the Amazon with those of the Oroonoko *, or 

 (as the lieutenants of Raleigh called it to flatter 

 their chief) the Rio Raleana, to the latter were 

 attributed all the traditions, which had been 

 collected respecting the Dorado of Quixos, the 

 Omaguas, and the Manaos-f". The geographer 



* The Amazon was confounded with the Oroonoko at the 

 same period when other geographers distinguished between 

 the Amazon, the Orellana, and the Maragnon. " Fluvius 

 Orenoque Andalusiam novam a Gujana dirimens, alias ab 

 Hispanis Orellana vocatus fuit." (Blaeuw, p. 17.) 



f In the map of P. du Val d' Abbeville (No. 9561 of 

 D'Anville's collection, preserved in the archives of the Mi- 

 nistry of Foreign Affairs), we read near the lake Parime, 

 Orejones (nobles of Peru), and Establishment of the Incas. 

 See also Description generate deV Ameriquepar Pierre oV A vity, 

 seigneur de Montmartin, revue par J. B. de Rocoles, 16G0, 

 p. 136.) The flight of Manco-Inca, brother of Atahualpa, to 

 the east of the Cordilleras, no doubt gave rise to the tradition 

 of a new empire of the Incas in Dorado. It was forgotten, 

 that Caxamarca and Cuzco, two towns where the princes of 

 that unfortunate family were at the time of their emigration, 

 are situate to the south of the Amazon, in the latitudes of 

 seven degrees eight minutes and thirteen degrees twenty-one 

 minutes south, and consequently four hundred leagues south- 

 west of the pretended town of Manoa on the lake Parima 

 (three degrees and a half north lat.). It is probable, that, 

 from the extreme difficulty of penetrating into the plains east 

 of the Andes covered with forests,, the fugitive princes never 



