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of the littoral chain with the Andes, like that of the Pyre- 
nees with the mountains of Asturia and Galicia; it is not 
ridges, like the connection of the 
Pymiees with the bwiss Alps, by the Black Mountain and 
and lake';f Vafencl^^' junction are between Truxillo 
The eastern chain of J^'ew Grenada stretches N.E. by the 
Timotp^^lV-^*^ Mmda, as well as by the four Paramos of 
and Las Eosas, of which the 
.. Molute height cannot be less than from 1400 to 1000 toises. 
.Alter the laramo of Las Eosas, which is more elevated than 
the two preceding, there is a great depression, and we no 
longer see a distinct chain or ridge, but merely hills, and 
Ingh table-lands surrounding thetowms of TocuVo and Bar- 
quisimeto We know not the height even of Cerro del 
Altar, between Tocuyo and Caranacatii; but we know by 
recent measures that the most inhabited spots are from 300 
to 3o0 toises above sea-level. The limits of the mountain- 
ous land between Tocuyo and the valHes of Aragua are, the 
plans of han Carlos on the south, and the Eio Tocuvo on 
the north ; the lEo Siqiiisique flows into that river. Prom 
tlie Cerro c el Altar on the KE. towards Guigne and Valen- 
cia, succeed, as culminant points, the mountains of Santa 
Maria (between Buna and Nirgiia) ; then the Picacho de 
Nirgua, supposed to be 600 toises high; and finally Las 
1 alomeras and El Torito (between Valencia and Alrfrua). 
i he hue of water-partition runs from west to oast, from 
Quibor to the lofty savannahs of Loudon, near Santa Eosa. 
J he waters flow on the north, towards the Oolfo triste of 
the Caribbean Sea; and on the south, towards the basins of 
t ae Apura and the Orinoco. The wdiole of this mountainous 
country by which the littoral chain of Caracas is linked to 
t lie Cordilleras of Cundinamarca, was celebrated in Europe 
ni the imdclle of the nineteenth century; for that part of 
the territory formed of gneiss-granite, and lying between 
the Eio Tocuyo and the Eio Yaracui, contains the auriferous 
veins of Buna, and the Copper mine of Aroa, wliich is 
worked at the jiresent day. If, across the knot of the moim- 
Cuns of B,yquisimeto, we trace the meridians of Aroa. 
Airgiia, and San Carlos, we find that on the jSi.W.that knot 
IS linked with the Sierra de Coro, and on the JM-E. with tba 
