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latitude, and between the meridians of the sources of the 
Orinoco and the Bssequiho. The 
system of mountiiiiis northward between the ^ f 
rliina and Rio Cuyuui, and between the meridians 6b and 
6U° is still less known. The only road trequented by white 
meii’ is that of the river Paragua, vvhich_ receives the 
Paraguamusi, near the Guirior. We find mdeed, 
journal of Nicolas Rodrigue/., that he was constantly obliged 
to have his canoe carried by men (arrastrandq) past the 
cataracts which intercept the navigation ; but '"'f ^ 
forget a circumstance, of which my own 
me with frequent proofs.-that the f 
South America are otten caused only by ridges ot rocKs 
which do not form mountains. Rodriguez names but too 
between Bareeloneta and the mission ot 
missionaries place more to the east, in 6 latitude, beto ecu 
the C Sold and the Cuyuni, the Serranias ot Usupama 
and Rinocote. The latter crosses the Mazaruiu 
thirty-nine cataracts in the Essequibo, trom the mihtaiy 
post of Arinda (lat. 5° 80') to the mouth 
^ With respect to the continuation of the sjstein o 
the of P,mn,o, rf « .c 
the Essenuibo, the materials are entucly nanti^ 
tracing it^Gto precision. The whole interior of Duteh 
Erench and Portoguose Guiana, is a terra mc^piita ; and 
and acquire reality, m being rraceu .-...nested in 
means of astronomical observations, (as 
1817), this undertaking would Cayenne, 
to that unknown region, which, at p, •„„„ ond the 
divides the waters between the coast of _ f 
Amazon. Till that period, of 
Brazil seems to retard, the googiostic table ot t b 1 ^ 
Parime can only be completed by scattered not ons coimc ea 
in the Portos»..e -1 cr =ifT “f«9,,, 
a part of the eastern branch of the <-oid ei. ox u , 
we find towards the cast, a chain ot mountains, called by 
