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from Cundirumarca, and was used in the first years of republican
independence to denote the whole country of New Granada, 311, 312

Chronometric connection of the town of Quito with Tomependa on
the upper waters of the Amazons, and with Callao de Lima, the
position of which was accurately determined by observations of
the transit of Mercury on the 9th day of November, 1802, 312, 313

Unpleasant etiquette in the Inca's court. Atahuallpa's captivity;
his proposed ransom 314

Philosophic doubts of Huayna Capac (according to the report of Padre
Blas Valera) respecting the Deity of the Sun. Objections of the
Inca-government to the extension of knowledge among the poorer
and lower classes of the people 316, 317

Raleigh's project for restoring the dynasty of the Incas under
English protection, for which a yearly tribute of several hundred
thousand pounds was to be paid 317, 318

Earliest evidence obtained by Columbus of the existence of the
South Sea or Pacific Ocean. The South Sea first beheld by Vasco
Nuñez de Balboa (25th Sept. 1513), and first navigated by Alonso
Martin de Don Benito 318, 319

On the possibility of the formation of an oceanic canal (with fewer
locks than the Caledonian Canal) through the Isthmus of Panama.
Points in which the examination has been neglected 319-323

Determination of the longitude of Lima 323, 324