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towards tlie province of Antioqma. In 5 15 
this chain, tile only one that shews of 
cauic fire in the summits of Sotara and Pura^ , 
considLblv towards the west, and joins 
which we have called the chain ot ^ 
tiniferons land of that province 
the Pacific ocean. By the union of 
basin of the province ot Popayan is close » 
Cartao-o Vieio • and the river ot C'auca, issuing trom the 
plain of Bima,’i8 forced, from the Salto de San Antonio to 
La Boca del’E-spiritu Santo, to oi- ity |^| across 
mountains, along a course ot tiom i HkT bottom of 
difference of the level is The 
the two parallel basins ot Cauca and M^Sdaleia^ 
former, bltween Cali ““^^antago, is from 
toises • the latter, from Aeiva to Ambalema, IS 
150 toiLs toh According to different geological hypo- 
theses it inav be said either that the secondary tormations 
have not aceuiiiiilated western 
eastern and central, as between the c • " 
chains ■ or that the deposits have been made on the base ot 
primiti’ve imcks, unequally upheaved tlmtlSck- 
the Andes of Quindiiv 
ness of these tormations is 300 tonics. from 
the Angostura of Cai-are branches from t l e ^ast, 
rowed in o® and 5 18, on the easi i- 
Sergento, and on the west by the spurs that ‘“-c ke* 
the^gStic mountains of Maraquito and ba. ta Anm 
This narrowing of the bed ot the ^ 
parallel with that of the Cauca, near « ° ^alto d^ ba 
Antonio; but, in the knob of the 
the central and western chains .loiii each ^ I 
Honda and Mendales, the tops ot the f nfral a'^ eastern 
chains are so far removed, that it is o'* X toother. It is 
system that draw near and are conlound ^ ^ ^ ^ 
also worthy of remark, that the i " 
Grenada displays the loftiest summit of the Andos 
