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f.he Devil s. Wall, which surrounds a part of the group of 
mountains in the Hartz.* These peaks, when seen from afar 
in the Llanos, strike the imagination of the inhabitants of 
the plain, who are not accustomed to the least unequal 
ground, and the height of the peaks is singularly exag- 
gerated by them. They were described to us as being in 
he middle ol the steppes (which they in reality bound on 
the north) for beyond a range of hills called La Galera. 
u gmg 10 m angles taken at the distance of two miles, these 
s aie scarcely more than a hundred and fifty-six toises 
An 1C J. • ,ln j le v illage of San J uan, and three hundred and 
SJS abo : e the level of the Llanos, The thermal 
of tnnSihf °i Ut at tbe of these hills, which are formed 
sulnhnreH^"^ m ? St ° ne ' -f 10 waters are impregnated with 
fydrogep, like those of Mariara, and form a 
litttepool or lagoon in which the thermometer rose only to 
fou ? d ’ 01 \ ; the m § ht of tbe 9tb of March, by very 
feSSS. ,he " to ™' th ° 
de . Cura “ celebrated in the country for thf 
mnacles of an image of the Virgin, known by the name oi 
mestra Sonora delos Valcndanos. This image was found 
Snturv U wl bj a > I K ndiail> about tbe middle of eighteenth 
II • ’ lerllt became the object of a contest between 
irs oTthe .Srr' 1 San Sebastia » de los Reyes The 
| °! the latter town asserting that the Virgin had made 
her first appearance on the territory of tS parish the 
thri Tong PUtaneDd t0tbesc -^ 
1802. 1 16 Gd t0 the ^^itants of Cura till 
littlf riyerlf S sl at T ed C ° o1 and Hm P id water of the 
griinstein wf S ( -' ]Ua o’ tbe bottom of which is of basaltic 
by Ortiz nm? p nturaed 0ur journey at two in the morning, 
theLknnfhl- PlXT Ti?’}° tbc Mesa de Pa >- The road to 
travellers w at tbat tlme “Tested with robbers, several 
proceeded vi, 80 ;”. to form a sort of caravan. We 
skirted el. d n Wtl blU dlm,1 S or seven hours ; and we 
^the Cerro de Flores, near which the road turns off 
Die feufe.ls Mauer,” near Wernigerode in Germany. 
