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AMOLTEPEC, a settlement of the alcaldia mayor of Teozaqualco in Nueva Espana. It contains 96 families of Indians, who gather cochineal and cultivate some maize. It is nine leagues to the s. of its capital.

AMONOOSUCK, an Indian name given to two rivers in New Hampshihre; the one is called Upper Amonoosuck, passing through a track of excellent meadow. It rises near the n. end of the White hills, runs n. about 15 miles, where is a carrying place of about three miles to Amariscoggin river. From thence the river runs s. w. and w. nearly 18 miles, and empties into the Connecticut at Northumberland, near the Upper Coos.
The other is called Great or Lower Amonoosuck, which rises on the w. side of the White mountains. It falls into the Connecticut just above the town of Haverhill in Lower Coos, by a mouth 100 yards wide. About two miles from its mouth it receives Wild Amonoosuck, 40 yards wide, from Franconia and Lincoln mountains. Two or three hours rain raises the water in this last mentioned river several feet, and occasions a current so furious as to put in motion stones of a foot in diameter, but its violence soon subsides.

AMOPOCAN, a settlement of Indians of the province and corregimiento of Cuyo in the kingdom of Chile, situate on the shore of a river.

AMORTAJADO. See Santa Clara.

AMOTAPE, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Piura in Peru, immediately upon the coast of the S. sea, and a quarter of a league from the river of its name, which forms itself into pools in the rainy season, which so fertilize the land as to produce abundance of seeds, roots, and fruits peculiar to a hot climate. It is in the direct road called Vales, which leads to Piura. In its vicinity is a miue of Cope, a sort of black and hard naphtha, resembling ashphalta, in which a great commerce is carried on with the ports, where it is used instead of alquitran, though it is more commonly mixed with the latter. [In 4 degrees 50' lat. 80 degrees 42' w. long.] and 14 leagues from the capital.

AMOTAPE, a sierra of the same province and corregimiento, beginning at cape Blanco, and running in a n.n.e. direction until it becomes incorporated with the sierra of Pachini.

AMOTAPE, a river of the above province.

AMOZAQUE, a settlement and head settlement of the district of the alcadia mayor of the Puebla de los Angelos, situate in a hot and dry temperature. It contains, besides the parish church, a convent of the order of St. Francis; one hundred families of Spaniards, Mulattoes, and Mustees, and 586 of Indians, including those of the wards of its jurisdiction. Three leagues e. of its capital.

[AMPALLA, by some authors called Ampalia, a city and seaport in Guatemala gulf, in that of Mexico, 350 miles s.e. of the city of Guatemala, and carries on a brisk trade in cochineal, cocoa, hides, indigo, & c.]

AMPARAES, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Paucartambo in Peru, annexed to the curacy of the of Cochabamba. [Lat. 19 degrees 12' s. Long. 67 degrees 3' w.]

AMPATA, a settlement of the province and government of Tucuman, and of the jurisdiction of the city of Rioja, and do the s. of the same.

AMPI, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Parinacoche in Peru, annexed to the curacy of Pacca.

AMPOLA, a river of the province and colony of N. Carolina, which runs s. and enters the Aldama.

AMPONES, a barbarous nation of Indians in the province and government of Paraguay. The natives are small, and in habit the forests of the Rio de la Plata to the s. It is bounded n. by the Yaperaes, e. by the Mepones, and S. by the Chimenes. They all form one nation, although they are divided into several tribes. They are courteous and valorous, maintain themselves upon wild fruits and fish, which they catch in the neighboring lakes, and which they preserve by smoking. They enjoy a fine country and a healthy climatc. They have some gold mines, and this metal is also found in the sand of the shores of their rivers; nor are they without some intercourse with the city of Concepcion. Sone have been converted to the Catholic faith through the zeal and exertions of the Jesuits.

AMSTERDAM, a capital town of the island of Curazao, with a large bay on the s. coast, opposite the cape of Hicacos of Tierra Firme.

[Amsterdam, a new township in Montgomery county, New York. It contains 235 inhabitants, who are electors.]

Amsterdam, New, a city in the province of Guayana, and in the Dutch possessions, situate near the coast. [Lat. 6 degrees 20' n. Long. 57 degrees 15' w.]

Amsterdam, another city in the province and colony of New England, which belongs to

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