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justly be called rather than America, since it took its beginning from 

 that famous Admiral and Viceroy in Perpetuity of the Indies, Don 

 Cristobal Colon, in the year 1592 (sic), viz, all the West Indies 

 of Nev^ Spain and the Southern Indies of Peru with all that attaches 

 to them, for (after God) he is owed the glory of those famous 

 discoveries. 



801. Sixteen hundred and fifty-seven years after God had created 

 the earth, the abominable sins of mankind and their departure from 

 His divine worship and knowledge brought on the universal Flood, 

 in which all perished and only righteous Noah and his children were 

 saved. Two years after the Flood, in 1659, Shem son of Noah begat 

 Arphaxad, and in the year 1694, when Arphaxad was 35 years old, 

 he begat Salah ; and in the year 1724, when Salah was 30 years old, 

 he begat Eber, who was righteous and a prophet. He it was, when 

 loi years had passed since the Flood, who was present at the founda- 

 tion of Babylon and of its haughty Tower, on which occasion God 

 confounded the natural and holy language He had given our father 

 Adam in Paradise.] 



(Paragraphs 800 and 801 were all crossed out in the MS, and the 

 pages left without numbers.) 



Secretariat of New Spain 



802. Statement of the cities (ciudades) and towns (villas) of 

 Spaniards in the Indies, by the districts of the Circuit Courts 

 (Audiencias) and Dioceses (Obispados) ; the cities are indicated in 

 the margin by a C, the towns by a V, the mining camps by an M. 



803. In the district of the Circuit Court of the island of Hispaniola 

 and its Archbishropric. 



805. In the island of Margarita, which for a limited time is attached 

 to the above Diocese, 



C. La Margarita. V. Valle de Paraguachi. 



V. Valle de La Margarita. V. Valle de Tacarig^a. 



