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498 NOTES OF A BOTANIST CHAP.
Pastasa, below the mouth of the Patate, for eight
months, we came successively on six small fumaroli,
from which a stream of thin smoke is constantly
issuing. People who live on the opposite side of
the valley assert that they sometimes see flame
hovering over these holes by night. The inhabitants
of the existing farm of Juivi complain to me
that they have been several times alarmed of late
(especially during the months of October and
November 1859) by the mountain " bramando "
(roaring) at night. The volcano is plainly, there-
fore, only dormant, not extinct, and both Tunguragua
and the Llanganatis may any day resume
their activity.
[Here follows a rather elaborate description of the
various rivers and their tributaries as shown on the
map, which, being of little interest to the general
reader, are omitted. Of the map generally, Spruce
makes the following observation :
As the great mineral districts of Llanganati,
occupying the northern half of the map, was
repeatedly travelled over by Guzman himself,
fuller of minute detail than the rest ; and
it is
I am
assured by those who have visited the actual
localities that not one of them is misplaced on the
map ;
but
the southern portion is much dislocated ;
and, as I have traversed the whole of it, I will
proceed
to make some remarks and corrections on
this part of the map.
[As these corrections are accessible to all specially
interested, and will no doubt be made use of in
compiling future maps of Ecuador,
I omit these
also, and pass on to a description of the map itself,
and to the remarkable document which it illustrates.]