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j?asturage witli horses and iiuiles. No sheep or goats are 
lound on these immense plains. Sheep do not thrive well in 
^qiunoctial America, except on table-hands above a thousand 
foises high, where their fleece is long, and sometimes very 
In the burning climate of the plains, where the wolves 
place to jaguars, these small ruminating animals, desti- 
of means of defence, and slow in their moyemeuts, 
^■aunot be preserved in any considerable numbers. 
arrived on the 15th of July at the rimdacion, or 
. dolPao, founded in 1741, and situated very favourably 
a Commercial station between N ueva Barcelona and An- 
jostura. Its real name is El Coucepeion del I’ao. Alcedo, 
Cruz, Olmedilla, and many other geographers, have mis- 
'aheu the situation of this small town of the Llanos of Ihir- 
p®‘ona, confounding it either with San Juan Bauptisto del 
of the Llanos of Caracas, or with El Valle del Pao do 
karate. Though the weather was cloudy, I succeeded in 
ootaining some heights of a Gentauri, serving to determine 
'6 latitude of the place ; which is 8° 37' 57 ". iSonie alti- 
udes of the sun gave me 67° 8' 12" for the longitude, sup- 
posing Angostura to be 66° 15' 21". The astronomical 
eterminations of Calabozo and Concepcion del Pao are 
important to the geography of this country, where, 
the midst of savannahs, fixed points are altogether 
miting. Some fruit-trees grow in the vicinity of Pao ; 
are rarely seen in the Llanos. AVe even found some 
^ocoa-trees, wl'iich appeared very vigorous, notwithstanding 
‘6 great distance of the sea. I was the moi’e struck with 
iih'f u doubts have recently been started respect- 
^ S the veracity of travellers, who assort that they have 
L^J;i''cyocoa-trec, which is a palm of the shore, at Tim- 
etoo, in the centro of Africa. AVo several limes saw 
amid the cultivated spots on the hanks of the 
r.„ ° more than a hundred leagues from the 
coast. 
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fro '''■fitch to us appeared very tedious, brought us 
adv^ ’^fifi*’ del Pao to the port of Nueva Barcelona. As we 
and'^fR^^’ became more serene, the soil more dusty. 
Buff a .atmosphere more hot. The heat from wliich wc 
hut*^'*", entirely owing to the temperature of the air, 
IS produced by the fine sand mingled with it ; this sand 
