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it's course marks in some sort, even on the most 

 imperfect maps, the direction of that part of the 

 plains, which are interposed between New Gre- 

 nada, and the western border of the mountains 

 of Pari me. 



The Llanos or steppes of the Lower Oroonoko 

 and of the Meta, like the deserts of Africa, bear 

 different names in different parts. From the 

 mouths of the Dragon, the Llanos of Cumana, 

 of Barcelona, and of Caraccas or Venezuela % 

 follow from East to West. Where the steppes 

 turn toward the South and the South-South- 

 West, from the latitude of 8°, between the me- 

 ridians of 70° and 73°, we find, from North to 

 South, the Llanos of Varinas, Casanare, the 

 Meta, Guaviare, Caguan, and Caqueta -f\ The 



* The following are subdivisions of these three great Llanos, 

 as I marked them down on the spot. The Llanos of Cumana 

 and New Andalusia include those of Maturin and Terecen, 

 of Amana, Guanipa, Jonoro, and CarL The Llanos of Nueva 

 Barcelona comprise those of Aragua, Pariaguan, and Villa 

 del Pao. We distinguish in the Llanos of Caraccas those of 

 Chaguaramas, Uritucu, Calabozo or Guarico, La Portuguesa, 

 San Carlos, and Araure. 



+ The inhabitants of these plains distinguish as subdivisions t 

 from the Rio Portuguesa to Caqueta, the Llanos of Guanare, 

 Bocono, Nutrius or the Apure, Palmerito near Quintero, 

 Guardalito and Arauca, the Meta, Apiay near the port of 

 Pachaquiaro, Vichada, Guaviare, Arriari, Inirida, the Rio 

 Hacha, and Caguan. The limits between the savannahs and 

 the forests, in the plains that extend from the sources of the 

 Rio Negro to Putumayo, are not sufficiently known. 



