Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 51300-h.htm or 51300-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51300/51300-h/51300-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51300/51300-h.zip) Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49255 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/spanishamericaor02bonn Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). SPANISH AMERICA; Or a Descriptive, Historical, And Geographical Account of the Dominions Of Spain in the Western Hemisphere, Continental and Insular; Illustrated by A Map of Spanish North America, and the West-India Islands; A Map of Spanish South America, And an Engraving, Representing the Comparative Altitudes of the Mountains in Those Regions. by R. H. BONNYCASTLE, Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers. "Such of late Columbus found the American, so girt With feathered cincture, naked else and wild Among the trees, on iles and woody shores-- ----In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico the seat of Montezume, And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons Call El Dorado."-- PARADISE LOST. In Two Volumes. VOL. II. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row. 1818. Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street-Square, London. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PART II. SOUTH AMERICAN DOMINIONS. (CONTINUED.) CAPTAIN GENERALSHIP OF CARACCAS, Boundaries and Extent Page 1 Political and Territorial Divisions, Government 2 Discovery, History 2 Capital 4 Description of the Features, &c. of the Country 8 Province of New Andalusia 18 ---- New Barcelona 18 Features, Climate, &c. 25 Province of Venezuela and Coro 43 ---- Maracaybo 58 ---- Varinas 65 ---- Spanish Guiana 69 Government of the Island of Margarita 73