. The earth and its inhabitants ... bouring mainland, and then to the whole of the New World. The changefrom Ameraca, or Amaraca, to America would be easily explained by the obscure no SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. articulation, especially of tlie vowels, by the Indians of those parts.* It is to benoted, however, that Cristobal Guerro and Paralonzo Nino, who visited the main-land in the yeir 1499, mention the place under the name of Mamca, whichdiffers considerably from the form finally adopted for the continent on the pro-posal of Waltzemuller or Jean Basin. In his voyage of 1595 Walter Ra
. The earth and its inhabitants ... bouring mainland, and then to the whole of the New World. The changefrom Ameraca, or Amaraca, to America would be easily explained by the obscure no SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. articulation, especially of tlie vowels, by the Indians of those parts.* It is to benoted, however, that Cristobal Guerro and Paralonzo Nino, who visited the main-land in the yeir 1499, mention the place under the name of Mamca, whichdiffers considerably from the form finally adopted for the continent on the pro-posal of Waltzemuller or Jean Basin. In his voyage of 1595 Walter Raleighstill refers to Maracnjmna as the general designation of all the seaboardstretching east and west between Guiana and the province of Venezuela. Cumana, an Andalusian foundation, has been eclipsed in commercial activityand population by Barcelona, a Catalonian settlement, dating ffom the year stood originally on the slopes of the Cerro Santo ( Holly mount ), but was Fig. 36. —Barcelona and 1: 1,100, 65° Wast ol Greenw cV Depths. 0 to 50Fathoms. 50 Fathomsand upwards. 25 Miles. afterwards removed to the foot of the Morro de Barcelona, an isolated headlandon the banks of the Rio Neveri, close to the coast. Barcelona is convenientlysituated, at the western extremity of the Cumana coast range, for the export ofsuch local produce as cacao, coffee, skins, and dyewoods. Unfortunately, itsharbour is so obstructed with dangerous quicksands, caused by the deposits of theRio Neveri, that the shipping has to ride at anchor in the offing, to the windwardof the shelter afforded by a cluster of reefs and islets. Hence a new harbourhas been selected, some 12 miles north-eastwards, in the small but deep andwell-sheltered creek of Guanta, which is now connected hj rail with line runs south-eastwards up the Neveri, in the direction of the Naricualvalley. In the sandstone hills of this district have recently been discovered * Société de Géogr
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