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that the Essequiho, an identical direction with 
and the Caribs for ages conducted their warlike 
Sold expeditions. It may be conceived that the 
nand ° i Cordilleras might be conveyefl from hand to 
sho*^’ p^^ugh an infinite number of tribes, as far as the 
trac? PL^^“*”aa; since, long before the fur-trade had at- 
west^^ ■'^“glish, liussian, and American vessels to the north- 
Nei America, iron tools had been carried from 
and Canada beyond the Eockjr Mountains. 
jQj error in longitude, the traces of which we find in 
of of the 16th century, the auriferous mountains 
Hear Hfew Granada Mere supposed to be much 
tjjg ^ of the Orinoco and the Amazon than 
inr/ C-eographers have the habit of augment- 
oen+f^i- ®*^o^ding beyond measure countries that'are re- 
discovered. In the map of Peru, published at Verona 
. ^*^^0 di Porlani, the town of Quito is pLaced at the 
the dOO leagues from the coast of the South Sea, on 
ther^fln^*^’^*^ Cuinana ; and the Cordillera of the Andes 
DmciT p “Iroost the M'hole surface of Spanish, French, and 
the A This erroneous opinion of the bi'eadth oi 
porta I’ds DO doubt contributed to give so much iin- 
®ide ^ granitic plains that extend on their eastern 
the A ^“deasingly confounding the tributary streams of 
nant ™ "ith those of the Orinoco, or (as the lieute- 
Ealeigh called it, to flatter their chief) the Bio 
■"hicb”^’ latter were attributed all the traditions 
the O collected respecting the Dorado of Quixos, 
^ ffiaguas, and the Manoas.* The geographer Houdius 
CoidUle^ Manco-Inca, brother of Atahnalpa, to the east of the 
the Ineas**’ "n S»''e rise to the tradition of the new empire of 
towns wl “Orado. It was forgotten, that Caxamarca and Cuzco, two 
their embrV*”* princes of that unfortunate family were at the time of 
of seven d situate to the south of the Amazon, in the latitudes 
•outh and^™^* o'Sht minutes, and thirteen degrees twenty-one minutes 
tended to ®®’’®®i|“e*>tly four hundred leagues south-west of the pre- 
oorth lat the lake Parima, (three degrees and a half 
*og into th I Ptobable that, from the extreme difficulty of penetrat- 
Priuces nev ^ *^®t of the Andes, covered with forests, the fugitive 
1 *®ariitwirh^ beyond the banks of tlie Beni. The following is what 
*ome Sad \ pottainty respecting the emigration of the family of the Inca, 
•cknowled which I saw on passing by Caxamarca. Manco-lnca, 
ged as the legitimate successor of Atahualpa, made war witlioul 
