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Sacoboni to nortb-.s-est, and dmdes toe waters Jf^een the 
Pacliic and the Caribbean Sea ; they flow from the northern 
declivity into the llio Cauca, and from the southern declivity, 
into the Kio de Patiaa /xrii-i3=> resem- 
The tripartitioii ot the Andes (N. lat. 1* r" “4 ) resei 
bles that which takes place at fte source of 
the knot of the mountains of Huauuco and 1 asco (lat. ii 
S.) ; but the most western of the three chains that bound 
the basins of the Amazon and the Huallaga is the lottiest 
while that of Choeo, or the shore, is the 
three chains ol New fircnada. Ignorance ol this tnpartition 
of the Andes in tliat part of South America neai tlie Bio 
Atrato and the isthmus of Ikinama, has led to m^i^bat 
neons opinions respecting the possibility ot a canal that 
should connect the two seas. r-omflT# nre- 
The eastern chain ot the Andes of 
.serves its parallelism during some time wuth ^heti o other 
chains thoL of Quindiu and Choco ; but beyond luiija (lat. 
5i=Ht Ses 11 ore towards the north-east, passing sonm- 
.■l™t iaptl, from the .feeclion N. 25- E, to that ot 
■15^ E It is like a vein that changes its direction , and it 
rejoins the coast after being greatly enlarged by ^h® 
of the snowy moiiiitaius of Merida. The 
Cordilleras, and above all, the spreading ol f 
have a vast influence on the jirospei ' J' ® j t.i'ble lands 
New Grenada. The diversity ol the superposed table lands 
and climates varies the 
the character of the inhabitants. It gives o p g 
exchange of productions, and renews over 
north ol- the equator, the picture ot the.su ry '^^Ihes aiM 
cool and temperate plains ot leru. It is , J’ , 
remark that, by the separation ol one ot le . . ^ 
Cordilleras of "Ciiudinainarca, and by the 
chain of Bogota towards the north-east, the colossal o jj 
of the mountains of Merida is enclosed in *®- f * 
the ancient Capitania-general of Venezuela and 
continnitv of the same mountainous ho'd iiom P ^ 
Barquesilneto and Nirgua may be said to as 
the politictd union of the Coliimhian ten ito y. ° . 
^ I employ a systematic dcnoimnation, for the name of tie n es 19 
nnknown in the countries situated north of the equa 
