THE LAKE CASSIPA. 
S3 
tries. 
as all ^ves tliis basin forty miles in breadth ; and, 
does I’orima must have auriferous sands, he 
not fail to assert, that in summer, when the waters 
retire, 
there. 
The 
Arui, 
pieces of gold of considerable weight are found 
sources of the tributary streams of the Carony, the 
Slid the Caura (Caroli, Arvi, and Caora,* of the 
n-estp^ S®ogi'aphers) being very near each other, this sug- 
froni *^ 1-1 limbing all these rivers take their rise 
enhrrr P^'-^^'^nded lake Cassipa.f Sanson has so much 
ieuf^tTi ^1 n forty-two leagues in 
placerl’ pttoen in breadth. The ancient geographers 
triliiif ^PP*-’®’*-® to each other, with vei’y little hesitation, tlie 
nlm.o streams of the two banks of a ' — ’ 
moutli of the Carony, and 
river; and tliey 
i-Mc v,iuujij, auu lake Cassipa, which 
filjov/i the Carony with Orinoco, sometimest 
bv 1-Tn the Meta. Thus it is carried back 
form of' latitudes of 2° ami 3°, giving it the 
north t ^’®®f‘'^ngle, _the longest sides of which run from 
because^' .’Tkis circumstance is worthy of remark, 
the PiVb <'* ’*®®'gning gradually a more southern latitude to 
t^assipa, it has been detached from the Carony and 
prt^ssly saicl tK • • 
I’agotos Em, * fiS’aal edition of 1596. Have these tribes of Cassi 
disappeared? mentioned by Raleigh, 
nations? T some mi.sapprchension give rise to tliese denomi- 
CarHj dialect™! '■'’® Indian words [of one of the different 
“ the great caavijowna nfMemraaa, translated by Raleigh, 
«'gnihes a chief, 
Sn'ent lake. 
nr " greatest coininaiider.” Si noeacffrwa/is certainly 
any ]terson who commands (Raleigh, pp, 6 and 7), 
Mssijiuna nerhaiw ■ - . . 
. 1 means “ great,” and lake Cassipa is synonymous with 
In the 
’giiiore, like „ same manner Cass-iquiare may bo a great river, for 
toallrm„...' >a, ■■ - 
on tlie north of the Amazon, a termination common 
however, in Cassipa-yofo, is a Caribbee term de- 
to all rivers. Goto 
"Ol'ng a tribe. 
liave^no't’*'ll"!‘“'i®. Cmm®. Coar 
I 
bitherto to guess what is meant by the Aloica 
and the Rio Arui, Aroay. 
it is meant by the Aloica 
Ibe Arui ° ” which issues from the lake Cassipa, between 
Nieuote Caerte^cm Carony and the Arui issue from it (Hondius, 
Rolrigh, 1594 *®n’tde<'4«rcto,d/ Guiana, hesneht door Sir 
Ihe Rio Caun ioo„« V b'ter maps, for instance that of 
■* ” fiom Wte Cassipa. 
'.otZm qfAcunha, 1680 
occidenta2e:iy 1689 . 
Walter 
Sanson, 
'd. South Amr- 
