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18 It courses onward through a varying and rough channel among the mountains and plains, until it is lost in the lagunes near Alvarado.

7th. The The sources of this river lie partly in the metallic mountains of Ixtlan, in the state of Oajaca, and partly in the neighborhood of Tehuacan de las Granadas. Many large, but wild streams, spring up in these mountain regions, and form the broad but shallow This river, after winding through the valley of Cuicatlan, receives, from the south, the large stream of  and all these unite to form the  which pursues its eastern course until it approaches the coast near Alvarado, when it divides into two arms. One of these, named joining the  and  form the large lagunes of  and —whilst the other arm, by a different course, also debouches in the same lagunes.

8th. , rises at about 16° 58' of north latitude, and 96° 19' west longitude, from Paris, in the mountains of Tarifa, and pours onward towards the east, receiving accessions from a great number of small mountain streams and rivulets, until it falls into the Gulf of Mexico.

9th. The, or or  rises in the mountains of Cuchumatlanes towards the centre of Guatemala, and falls into the gulf at the port of Tabasco.

10th. The, rises also in Guatemala, and debouches in the