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Show 444 PLATEAU OF CAXAMARCA. Before the Conquista, the plantain (Musa), which since the arrival of the Spaniards has been cultivated in all the warmer parts of New Granada, was only found, as Colonel Acosta believes (p. 205), at Choco. On the name Cundinamarca-applied by a false erudition to the young republic of New Granada in 1811, a name "full of golden dreams" (sueiios dorados), more properly Cundirumarca (not Cunturmarca, Garcilasso, lib. viii. cap. 2)-see also .Joaquin Acosta, p. 189. Luis Daza, who joined the small invading army of the Conquistador Sebastian de Belalcazar which came from the south, had heard of a distant country abounding in gold, called Cundirumarca, inhabited by the tribe of the Chicas, and whose prince had solicited Atahuallpa, at Caxamarca, for auxiliary troops. These Chicas have been confounded with the Chibchas or Muyscas of New Granada; and thus the name of the unknown more southern country has been unduly transferred to that territory. ( 9) p. 421.-" The fall of the Rio de Ohamaya." Compare my Recueil d'Observ. Astron., vol. i. p. 304; Nivellement barometrique, No. 236-242. I have given in the Vues des Cordilleres, Pl. xxxi. a drawing of the "swimming post," as he binds round his head the handkerchief containing the letters. (1°) p. 422.-" Which, on account of an old observation of La Oondamine, was of some importance to the geography of South .Ame1·ica." I desired t.o connect chronometrically Tomependa, the point at which La Condamine began his voyage, and other places geographically determined by him on the Amazons River, with the town of Quito. La Condamine had been, in .June, 17 43 (59 years before me), at Tomependa, which place I found, by star observations taken for three nights, to be in south lat. 5° 31' 28", and west longitude from Paris 80° 56' 37" (from Greenwich 78° 34' 55"). Previous to my return to France, the longitude of Quito was in error to the full amount of 50t minutes of arc, as Oltmanns has shown by my observations, and by a laborious recalculation of all those previously made. (Humboldt, Recueil d'Observations Astron., vol. ii. p. 309- 359.) .Jupiter's satellites, lunar distances, and occultations, give a |