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the seekas do telho. 
the missionaries Acaray and Tumucuraque. Those two 
latitude. Ealeigh first made known, in 1596, tlie svstem ot 
Ae mountains ol l^nme, between the sources of' the Eio 
“‘■^“0 of Wacarima 
I'n Ifiqn fli ’ .Tesuits Acuiilut and Artedia furnislied, 
wlfie?iwi^'’f of this system 
from the meridian of Essequibo to that of 
Oyapoc. There they place the mountains of Tguaracuru 
river Sfr®® ^fr*’^ * a ‘gold 
reen ’r ® of the Curupatuba* ; and 
according to the assertion of the natives, subterraneous 
noises are sometimes heard from the latter. The vk\Z Z 
his Cham of moiintians, which runs in a direction S. 85° E. 
tiom the peak of Dmda, near the Esmeralda (lat. 3° 19') to 
50'^ Manayo, near Cape I\ord (lat. 1° 
oO), divides in the parallel of 2“, tlie northern sources of 
the Essequibo, the Maroni, and the Oyapoc, from the 
^outhern soui.es ol the Eio Trombetas, Cu^up’atuba, aiJd 
+■^ +1 southern spurs of this chain approach 
nearer to the Amazon, at the distance of fifteen leagues 
perceived after ha^i ina 
left Xeberos and the mouth of the Huallaga. They arS 
constantly seen in navigating from the mouth of the^ Eio 
lEliIr' T?" fr““ tl'o town of Santarem to 
nf t w ^he PfakTripoupou is nearly in the meridian 
LidtL^°of celebrated among the 
ward at further east- 
c II A 1 • the Serras do Velho and do Earn are 
still distinguished in the horizon. The real boundaries of 
this senes of sources of the Eio Trombetas are better 
known southward than northward, where a mountainous 
of Ihe mountains and rivers (vinaTa cum 
have iust m>irVi»fi • j* • guara-curu, Cura-patuba), which we 
