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maize, hammocks, horns, mules, asses, goats, sheep,
salt,
wool, cheese, tmiher, and cocoa.
The
appellation of
Los Andes has been given
province foj-merly called from
its
chief
town
the
to
Trujillo,
It is
a small province, twenty Spanish leagues broad from east to west, and twenty-six long from north to south, divided from
Nueva C ego via on the north and
from Zulia on the
east,
and from Merida and Zamora on the south
west,
b}^ lofty
mountains, of which the peaks Volcan, Caldera, Niquitao, Rosario, Jabon, Rosas, Cabimbu, Tuiiame, Zelas, Linares,
Tonoco, and man}^ others,
Atajo, five
of these
covered with
are
neighbourhood
There
wastes
are
are, hoAvever,
called
is
as
deep valleys
and in
Most their
Paramos, in which a to destroy animal
life.
luxuriant vegeta-
full of
and cattle-breeding.
The
in general cold, or cool and refreshing.
The
and suitable
climate hills
from ten thousand
snow,
eternal
furious wind prevails, so cold
tion
rise
hundi'ed to seventeen thousand feet in height.
for agriculture
looldng towards the Lake of Maracaibo are, however,
feverish and unhealthy. Trujillo, the capital, is a
A
tants.
town of seven thousand inhabi-
town of the same name was
first
founded by
Diego Garcia Paredes in 1552 near Matatua, but the cahty was several times changed until
where
it
now
is,
a
little to
it
came
the town, which was long before
The
air is
The town hundred
hills
to be fixed
the south by east of the centre of
the province. In 1668, the pirate Francisco
between two
lo-
it
Gramont burned
recovered.
It is placed
on a steep slope towards the river Jacinto.
pure and
cool,
but the water produces the goitre.
stands at an elevation of thi'ee thousand four
feet
above the sea.
On
the 15th of June, 1813,