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of the transverse chains which divide America from east to 
west, it will be sufficient to notice the general structure of a 
continent, the extremities of which, though situated in cli- 
mates little analogous, nevertheless present several features 
ot resemblance. In order to have an exact idea of the plains, 
leir configuration, and their limits, we must know the chains 
m ?untains that form their boundaries. AVe have already 
escribed the Cordillera of the coast, of which the highest 
siimnn is ie Silla ae Caraccas, and which is linked by the 
Eosas , t0 the N «vada de Merida, and the 
j n Grenada. AVe have seen that, in the tenth 
^ ktlt ? de ’ ]t stre tehes from Quibor and Bar- 
mou dnVn far i 8 the , P 0 ' 1 ! 1 of Paria - A second chain of 
mountains, °r rather a less elevated but much larger <» roun 
rf»"e “Jrt* of 3 “ " d r tKSS 
U e Mmnl . '.w, ‘If Met ? «» «oura» of the Oriooeo, 
Gffiana f ™n d EV 6 Ess . e< l ul , bo > Awards French and Dutch 
txrnana I call this chain the Cordillera of Parime or of 
a length t o C f a 'tw aet l! °!i tb ? 0ri f 0C0 ‘ 14 “ay be followed for 
chahf Ln JT°ii h ™ dred , aud ^ Wues; but it is less a 
smaU’ nl!;!! collection of granitic mountains, separated by 
The eroun of f> ltb ° Ut everywhere disposed in lines. 
bewSn tW f tb ni0Un ^ ai ! ls °A Fannie narrows considerably 
Dememrf in tW I' and the mountains of 
which dMde tWt Sl , erra \ °} Quimiropaca and Pacaraimo, 
men divide the waters between the Caronv and the t?;,! 
st ©assa? >5sS: 
‘isrris r Ws&sbis 
off from tho A 1 "n ™ Ust a fi ,ult Flint it anciently branched 
plona Tl,!; ff tieS , Ween Sa f to Fe de BogotS and Pam- 
of the read mar P serves to fix more easily in the memory 
now ve^ imnp V gC0 f :l P llical position of a Cordillera till 
unites in P 'fectly known. A third chain of mountains 
la Sierra the 1 18 - SOU * h ^Aude (by Santa Cruz de 
’ Serranias of Aguapehy, and the famous 
