THE LAKE AMUCE. 
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side, and tiie Pirara, the Mahu, and the Uraricuera or 
■tiio Parima on the other), may be considered as tlie classical 
sou ot the Dorado of Parima. Tlie rivers at the foot of the 
Mountains of Pacaraimo are subject to frequent overllow- 
Santa Posa, the right hank of the Urariapara, 
® tnbutary stream of the Uraricuera, is called el Valle de 
p -^fundacion. Great pools are also found between the Pio 
“irima and tlie Xuruinu. These are marked on the maps 
recently constructed in Brazil, which furnish the most ample 
stalls of those countries. More to the west, the Cano 
U’ara, a tributary stream of the INfaliu, issues from a lake 
"ith rushes. This is the lake Amucu described 
y JNicolas llortsmaini, and re.specting which some Portu- 
guese of Barcelos, who had visited the Eio Branco (Pio 
uriina or Pin Paravigiana), gave me precise notions 
duri 
The lake 
^ u’g-iny stay at San Carlos del Pio Negro. 
; is several leagues broad, and contains two small 
i) which Santos heard called Mas Ipomucena. The 
^^upunuwiiii (Piipunury), on the banks of which llortsmann 
iscovered rocks covered with hieroglyphical figures, ap- 
it ^*'m*i°* ^ communicate with 
f irth^ Purtdge between the Pupuuuwini and the Mahu is 
‘r- wdiere the mountain of Ucucuamo* rises, 
1 M natives still call ‘the mountain of gold.’ They 
«f''q . ^°rtsmann to seek round the Pio Mahu for a mine 
S' ver (no doubt mica with large plates), of diamonds, and 
of 
emeralds. 
His 
He found nothing but rocky crystals 
tains f prove that the whole length of the moun- 
is coni ,^PPur Orinoco (Sierra Parima) toward the east, 
lil-p granitic rocks, full of druses and open veins, 
n 1 ®.i' Huida. Near these lands, which still enjoy 
Hutch p for their riches, on tlie western limits of 
Thp + Ouiana, live the Macusis, Aturajos, and Acuvajos 
PiiTM, ^ ‘Juntos found them stationed between the' 
and the chain of Pacaraimo. It is 
the of the micaceous rocks of the Ucucuamo, 
Urarin'^^ Ot the Pio Parima, the inundations of the rivers 
‘ f urima, and Xiummu, and more especially the 
is tlie rv!””' ‘"■ttagraphy of the manuscript journal of Rodriguez : il 
ro Acnr.n.„,„ .,*• r. i-atlicr of bis commeiilator. {Hist, 
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