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iiiC'lvI’TIO^f AT IIUSlliAS. 
lilce lioms * a little iuelined. Notwithstanding the grea 
lowering of the temperature during the season of the mrtes 
or north winds, snow never falls ; and only a hoar-frost (escar- 
finh moimtains, as on those of Santiago. 
i f explained. In emerging 
Irom the forest, we perceived a curtain of hills, of whicli 
j covered with houses; this is the town 
of Trmidad, founded in lol4, by the governor Diego Velas- 
quez, on account of “the rich mines of gold” which wer« 
said to have been discovered in the little valley of Eic 
Arimao.t The streets of Trinidad liave all a rapid defceiit 
iTthe Ponf* America, it isiomplaLd 
that the Conqiiistadores chose very injudiciously the site.i 
S Nupsirf northern extremity is the church 
of Nuestra Senora de la Popa, a celebrated place of pib 
^ ”® P-f* ^ '^00 feet above the 
^ SO™>nands a maguifieent view of tha 
ocean, the two ports (Puerto Casilda and Boca Guaurabo)- 
^ m circumstances not equally 
I My chronometric long^itud^ 
vuis ^17. I fl-as informed, at ray second visit to the 
Havamiah, in returning from Mexico, that this lono-itude 
was nearly identical with that obtained by the captliSof 
Krev '''"If f “"‘"‘I “">Pact limestone, whitish- 
+ This river flows towards the east into the Bahia de Xagua 
t It IS questionable whether the town founded by Velasouez was not 
Situated in the plain and nearer the ports of Casilda unA \ 
