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A90519	An historical & geographical description of the great country & river of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a mapp of the river, and of its provinces, being that place which Sr Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his voyage to Guiana. / Written in French by the Count of Pagan, and dedicated to Cardinall Mazarine, in order to a conquest by the Cardinals motion to be undertaken. And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration.	Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.; Hamilton, William, gent.	1660 (1660)	Wing P162; Thomason E1805_2; ESTC R209931	71,773	189

above-named it is impossible for Ships to take the same waies back again for returning to the places from whence they came that they held in coming from them so long as their Sailes must be fill'd with those East-windes so this great River of the Amazones hath this particular advantage beyond them that whole Armadoes can go from East to West and from West to East alwaies under the line and the same way both of going and coming and as the same time CHAP. XIII Of the Bosphore of the Amazone THe Thracian and Cimmerian Bosphores or Ox-swim-bredths were never so famous in ages past as the Amazonian Bosphore will be renowned in times to come in all apperance This one strange Strait of this River richer in one day than are at present both the Straits of Hellespont and of Elsenore shuts up in one channell scarcely a thousand paces broad or an Italian mile the whole great River of the Amazones proud of the spoiles of so many and great and long Rivers and highly puft up for his course of more than nine hundred sixty leagues through Plaines and Valleys the fertilest in the whole world and triumphing in all the waters that rise from the East of the great Cordeliere from the Town of Popayan to that of Plata which is the space of five hundred leagues This wonderfull Bosphore or Ox-passe which Providence hath reserved to be one day the Key of the richest Trade in the world and of the greatest Kingdom that is in one only Continent hath three hundred twenty eight degrees and fifty minutes of longitude and two degrees and fourty minutes of North-latitude and is three hundred leagues from the North sea following the course of turning and windings of this great River unto Zaparara however Father D' Acogna often enough variable in his measures carry sometimes this distance of the Bosphore from the Sea unto the length of three hundred sixty leagues But untill the longitude of this great part of America be better observed I intend alwaies to follow the least measures of distances Now this one only and famous Strait of the great River of the Amazones is yet further considerable for this that the flowing of the great Seas is here easily perceived offering a marvellous advantage to the commerce of this Rivers Navigation by the ebbing and flowing of the Ocean Whence it follows that the advantages of the first Nation that shall possesse its self by Colonies and Forts of both sides of this Amazonian Bosphore cannot be exprest in a few words For can any doubt but that the riches of so many Mines discovered and not wrought by the miserable depopulations of the rich Western Regions of this Peninsulare America will be one day snatched up by the greed of those will follow us and the multitude of men that will be born hereafter in these happy Countries and will in end be carried on the currents of so many famous Rivers as render themselves unto the Bosphore of the Amazone to be afterwards brought into Europe by the easie Navigation of the Atlantique Sea in comparison of the troublesome mountains of Panama the Corsaires and the Shipwracks of the Gulph of Mexico and the notable dangers of the channell of Bahame CHAP. XIV Of the first three Rivers that enter into that of the Amazones AFter that we have thus summarily described the course of the great River of the Amazones we will return to his beginning to handle anew the things that are without and adjacent to it But I could wish that Father Acogna the Authour and eye-witnesse of a part of these relations were more cleanly and understandable in them For not having been able to find either cartes or books to help my cares that I have to unfold these ambiguities I my self therefore rest not satisfied in this behalf with mine own work Without staying therefore to censure a Person of his Noblenesse and merit by reasons which I might and the curious may themselves perceive in his writings I shall take me to my Subject and tell you that from the Town of Cofana in the Province of Kixo to the East of the Andes of Peru and to the North of the line comes forth the Coca a navigable River which quickly renders himself on the North-side into the beginnings of the great River of the Amazones which as yet in these parts having his stream too rapid and violent hath not therefore at this place so convenient a navigation himself as other Rivers that enter into his large bed on the side of the Antarctique or South Pole The first whereof passing on as it were about three daies journeys from the City of Avila of the same Province of the Kixos renders himself in short while and under the name of Payamino into the great River on the South-side thereof and below the entrance of the Coca though the distance is not known nor set down But about eighteen leagues from the Town of Kito beyond the Andes of the great Cordelier is the mount Antezame on the South-side of the line from the foot of which the River of Napo coming forth and running amongst the Rocks without being navigable untill he come to a Port or Haven of the same name well nigh unto Archidona he becomes yet more easie to be navigated four leagues beneath that as well for the greatnesse of his Channell as for the lesse rapidnesse and violence of his stream and pursuing in this condition his way to great River he enters thereinto about thirty leagues only from Archidona But concerning the mouth of this River you may look the seventh Chapter of this Book unto which I will here adde that the foresaid Port of Napo where the Indians have an habitation is the best embarquing place for all those that from the Province of Kito would sail or go into the great Amazone And as to this pleasant fair and great enough River of Napo it hath this prerogative beyond others to rolle alongst with him a-amongst the sands of his current good store of Gold which the Natives of this Countrey gathering do therewith without much pains or trouble pay their tribute which yearly they owe to the Spaniards of that same Province a Province also that abounds every where else in all sorts of Fruites necessary for intertaining of the life the like whereunto may be said of it both for Fishing and Hunting or Chace CHAP. XV. Of the Agarique and the Putomaya HAving begun to shew you before the divers Havens or embarquing places by which the great and rich Province of Kyto may enter into the commerce of the great River of Amazone we will now follow the like way be the other Rivers that come from the North-side and give the like advantages to the rich Regions of the Popayan and of the Kingdom of new Granado whereof the first are the Aguarique and the Putomaya taking their beginnings in the Putomaya taking their beginnings in the great mountaines of the Cordelier both of

them well nigh to the Town of Pasto of the Government of Popayan having three hundred and one degrees and thirty minutes of longitude and one degree only of North latitude But though both these Rivers have their course from West to East yet that of the Aguarique which is the Southerliest comes first to the great River of the Amazones in the Province of the Chevelues or long-hair'd people and that after a course of more than an hundred leagues all along Navigable through happy fertile and well-inhabited Regions as all the rest of the Realm of the great Amazone is Now the mouth of this considerable River the Name whereof is The River of Gold because he draws much of it along his bank-sides is on the North-side of the great River of the Amazones and about an hundred seventeen leagues from his own Sources and Spring-heads and likewise under the line But the River of Putomaya taking a course much more stragling and wandring and watering a good many more Nations than the other makes also hereby his Navigation more considerable and of greater Portation by a course of farre greater extent and a greater number of Rivers that on all sides arrive unto him also And after he hath fertilized so many great champain Countries by the fresh vapours of his waters and by his ordinary overflowings as all Rivers of America do he opens and enlarges himself near unto a leagues bredth at his entry into the great River of the Amazones and about four hundred fifty three leagues from his own Sources or Well-heads Now the mouth of this River of Putomaya which carryes along with him gold also as most others do is on the North-side of the great River and hath two degrees and thirty minutes of Southern latitude having runne under the line a great deal more than the half of his course and under the same measured in his bankes and windings at least the space and length of more than three hundred fifty leagues Thus the commerce of the great River of the Amazones will in time coming receive no lesse enlargement by the happy Navigations of the Aguarique and of the Putomaya than by other great and famous Rivers which promise him the same encrease as well for the richesse and fertile Countries of the Town of Pasto as for the situation of the same which is too farre distant from the conveniencies of the Port of Carthagena CHAP. XVI Of the great Caketa a considerable River THe third and last River which from the North and from the mountains of the Cordelier comes into the great River of the Amazones goes under the name of The great Caketa and is acknowledged and celebrated for the greatest of all the Rivers in America next to the great Amazone The Kingdom of new Granado glories in its birth and the Valley of Nicao of the Province of Popayan is the famous place of his Source which hath two degrees and thirty minutes of North-latitude and three hundred and three degrees and fourty minutes of longitude on the terrestrial Globe This great River so much renown'd and yet so little known to this day by Geographers receives presently a marvellous increase of waters which descend in great abundance from the great mountains of St Faith of Bogota and taking his way from West to East almost every where parallell to the great Amazone he insensibly draws near to runne under the line continuing thus his course untill about at one degree of North-latitude and three hundred eighteen degrees of longitude he divides his large and magnificent Channell into Rio-negro and Rio-grand i. e. into the Black River and the great River But the great Caketa is so wonderfull at this place that this division hinders him not to render himself on the one side into the great Amazone by the first of his branches and by an entry of more than one league and an half broad nor to keep for a long time the colour of his own pleasant and deep waters untill that the great River of the Amazones all gathered up into one great bed for receiving of him deface this appearance of the Caketaes waters but not untill after a combate between them for the space of twelve leagues length As for his other branch which I take to be the great River of the Orenoc contrary to the opinions of Father D' Acogna because I see no other River from the Cape of the Sailes to the Cape of the North that can be attributed to him it turns its course towards the North and renders himself into the North-Sea by a mouth worthy of his greatness and magnificence But because the Orenos as other Rivers of Guyana have hath leaps and fals that are high and steep amongst the rocks that he passeth through following here the relations of Diego d' Ordas of Alphonso de Herrera and of Anthony de Berreo who were amongst the first of such as navigated it neither the commerce of the great Caketa nor that of the great Amazone can ever be hindred on this behalf as Father D'Acogna apprehends grounding himself on the passage of Lopez D'Aguirre which he held from the River of the Amazones to the North Sea by this track or way but not knowing that Lopez had not light Boats that can pass over all and shoot such fals as Oares do London-Bridge at a low water or that he made draw them alongst with him by land as other Spaniards also did before him from the beginning of the leap or fall of the River Orenoc to the end of it which is at least an hundred Leagues distant from his mouth whereby he enters into the great Ocean Returning therefore to the great Caketa we shall have done with him and this Chapter if we tell you that he receives an infinitie of other Rivers that he waters sundry rich Provinces and many very warlike Nations that his overflowings makes on all sides many great Lakes as is usuall in all other Rivers of America that now and then he sends some arms or branches into the great Amazone which are equall to some good Rivers in other places that his mouth of the Orenoc hath nine degrees of North-latitude and three hundred twenty one degrees and twenty minutes of Longitude and that his mouth of Rio-negro so called from the depth of his pure-clear waters whereby they seem black hath four degrees of South-latitude and three hundred twenty two degrees and twenty minutes of longitude on the North-side of the great River of the Amazones about some seven hundred eighty eight Leagues from his first sources the same distance that the Amazone hath from this place to his head as is before said towards the end of Chapter the ninth CHAP. XVII Of the River of Maragnon ONe of the principall and most famous Rivers that the Andes of the Cordeliere send forth towards the South of the great Amazone is without all doubt the Maragnon as well for the rich and noble Province whence he takes his