It lies about a mile from the NE edge of a lake of the same name; the lake at this time of the year is much reduced in size; but after being swelled by the rains in the winter season, it extends twenty miles from E to W, and half that distance from N to S. There are an immense number of these lakes, some much larger than that of Melinque; they extend all over this part of the pampas country, and w