C0PPEE-MI1TES OP AEOA. 
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health of the inhabitants, from cape Codera as far as the 
lake oi Maracaybo. 
Among the rivers which descend north-east toward the 
coas o 01 o abello, and La Punta de Hicacos, the most 
f Lf fn5 f 1 Me h0SC ° f ToCU >'°> A*oa, and Yaracuy. Were 
wTn/ Ln, . n T r a l a wHch ia&eb tbe atmosphere, the val- 
lous than thoseif W ™ 7 1 °^ be m 0 f T P°P U ' 
„; VP J Navigable rivers wouid even 
of their mm tle a ? vauta S e of facilitating the exportation 
ductbL of fl ° PS SU e ar aud “, and that of the pro- 
the Lttle of M e ' Shb 0 T^ S Ws J as the whcat Of Quibor, 
fim w£h tb??n ai1 “ d the c °PP er of Aroa. The mines 
SI P H 18 6xtracted > are in a lateral valley, 
unhealthy tlrn/ff° i ^ oa; aild 'Which is less hot, and less 
unhealthy, than the ravmes nearer the sea. In the latter 
£h oreLlt *^™***V, <md the son Lceals 
The ancient inines nil U ° °rf M 8 - v . et attempted to extract. 
l i mes ^ roa j after having been long neglected 
Gnanita, in ‘the mountain 1 of San plblo ^ P ^ 
are found in all the lnoimtnJr,^ i ,, (xrams of gold 
Yaracuy, the town oTffSS ^ betweeu tlle Eio 
simeto; particularly in flu* rr ,i P °i -Nlrgua, an d Barque- 
Indian gSSmerLiL ^ Santa Cru2 = m which the 
value ofLonr b or CplLrSTth of ^ 
of mica-slrfo '• ' les ' ,° the neighbouring rocks 
seminated here n-^Lff ccmta !f v ™ ? 0! ' is the gold dis- 
and of the Fichfeivi tbe g £ amtes ?f Guadarama in Spam, 
mass of the rock? pli ] ' Fl ’ ancoma > throughout the whole 
it, hrino- tnLtlk doss] , bl . y the waters, m filtering through 
whiVf, to S etber the disseminated grains of gold- in 
In the SuvaLidolaLr 1 '? t0 tlle roek vvould be useless, 
shaft has been sunt- 1 ’ t le f owu of Barquesimeto, a 
von. in k m a black sbmm g slate resembling 
