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town of Oropesa, which is built in the Cochabamba Valley. From 

 there toward the E. and the Atlantic come over i,ooo leagues of 

 different savage tribes scattered over great forests and rivers. 



1713. This city has jurisdiction in different directions over 20 

 leagues, more or less. It borders on the towns of Potosi, San Felipe 

 de Austria, Oropesa, and Salinas, Tarija, Paspaya, and Tomina, all 

 Spanish settlements. The town of Potosi is 18 leagues to the W., 

 and Oruro is 47 in the same direction ; the town of Oropesa is 40 

 leagues off; that of Salinas del Rio de Pisuerga, 20 to the N. ; that 

 of Tomina, 20 again, to the E., and that of Paspaya, 30, and Tarija 

 26 leagues to the S. Almost all the country in this district is very 

 rugged and the major part mountainous ; all that is under cultivation 

 is very fertile. 



1714. A league from this city forests begin and continue to the 

 hotter valleys and depressions, where the trees and woods are larger. 

 Various kinds of trees grow in them ; the best and most valuable 

 are cedar, molle, cinchona (quinaquina), tipa, soto, tarco, walnut 

 (nogal), alder, willow, algarrobo (carob), palm tree, ceiba (silk 

 cotton) which the Indians call cuiiuriyuruma, vilca, uruche, mara, 

 sutarpo, ayayanta, and tuisumo. 



Chapter XXVI 



Continuing the Description of the District of This City, and in 

 Particular of the Variety of the Trees and Their Timbers. 



1715. Of all the trees listed in the preceding chapter, the only 

 fruit trees are : the palm, which bears coconuts ; the walnut, very 

 tough-shelled nuts ; the carob, carob beans like the Spanish ones but 

 different in being white and sweeter ; the molle bears bunches of 

 what are like small grapes ; when ripe they are red and the Indians 

 make a kind of wine out of them which they drink. The cinchona 

 tree likewise produces pods like the carob ; the other trees do not 

 bear fruit. 



1716. Out of cedar they make planks and frames for house doors 

 and windows, tables, boxes, and other things ; from the tipa, cinchona, 

 soto, yayanta, tarco, and carob, joists, braces, and beams for houses 

 and the Potosi ore mills ; from the walnuts, planks, etc., as from 

 cedars ; from the molles, cogs for the gristmill wheels ; from the 

 willows, hoops for sieves and small boxes for preserves, and charcoal 

 for gunpowder ; and they get much else that is useful from these 

 and many other trees that they have. 



