appears to have been formed by an earthquake^ 
is only ten or twelve metres wide. In very dry 
seasons, the volume of water, which, at a double 
bound, falls to a depth of a hundred and seventy- 
five metres, still presents a side view of ninety 
square metres. The two figures of men, repre- 
sented in the drawing, serve as a scale of the 
total height of the fall. The point where these 
men are placed, on the upper bank, is two thou- 
sand four hundred and sixty-seven metres above 
the level of the ocean. From this point to the 
river Magdalena, the small river of Bogota, 
called at the foot of the cataract Rio de la 
Mesa, Rio de Tocayma, or Rio del Collegio, 
has still a fall of two thousand one hundred 
metres, which is more than one hundred and 
forty metres in every common French league. 
The road, which leads from the town of Santa 
Fe to the fall of * Tequendama, passes by the 
village of Suacha, and the great farm of Canoas, 
well known for its fine crops of wheat. The 
enormous mass of vapours, which continually 
rises from the cataract, and which is precipi- 
tated by its contact with the cold air, contributes 
much, it is believed, to the great fertility of this 
part of the plain of Bogota. At a small distance 
from Canoas, on the height of Chipa, a magni- 
ficent prospect astonishes the traveller by the 
variety of its contrasts. Leaving the cultivated 
plain rich in corn, he finds himself surrounded, 
