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outside the city by a sister of Tristan de Tejeda, and is the most 

 modern. There is a hospital for the care of the indigent sick; it is 

 poverty-stricken, and such a pious work ought properly to be assisted. 

 As one leaves the city there is a shrine of the glorious San Roque. 



1782. The country abounds in wheat, corn, chickpeas, and other 

 cereals, and root crops like potatoes, camotes (which are sweet pota- 

 toes), achiras, and others; they have all kinds of Spanish fruit, such 

 as pears, large and small peaches, alberchigo peaches, apricots, quinces, 

 pomegranates, figs, mazard cherries, oranges, citrons, grapefruit, 

 lemons, f rutilla de Chile, and other fruits ; there are numerous vine- 

 yards, with all varieties of vidufio vines with white and black grapes ; 

 there are many roses, pinks for almost all the year, and other fragrant 

 flowers. The gardens, flower beds, vineyards, and fields round about 

 the city are watered by irrigation from a large canal derived from 

 the river more than 2 leagues above the city ; every year it is cleaned 

 out by over 400 Indians and Negroes, for it fertilizes their fields 

 and crops ; it flows later through Santo Domingo ; many other chan- 

 nels branch ofif it for the city's supply and service, and then it runs 

 through the center of the city plaza, where there is a small tower 

 like a fort. 



1783. There are two horse-power gristmills (atajonas) inside the 

 city, and some water-power gristmills outside for grinding wheat ; 

 it has some looms (telares) where they weave and finish colored 

 blankets, which are the ordinary clothing of the Indians ; near the 

 Franciscan convent there are many algarrobos, which are green the 

 whole year and full of carob beans ; the city is plentifully supplied 

 with everything necessary for human life and has fine meadows where 

 they raise all kinds of livestock. It is a busy commercial center, 

 being a junction point for all that country, for Tucuman, and Buenos 

 Ayres, and the necessary passage point for the Kingdom of Chile, 

 from which much livestock comes via the Province of Cuyo, such as 

 sheep and goats being driven to Potosi ; much cattle comes from 

 the city of Santa Fe. 



1784. The principal business in this city of Cordoba is its great 

 mule ranches and the quantities of cloth manufactured in the Indian 

 villages in its district, over 40 in number, such as those of Don Pedro 

 de Cabrera, Juan de Tejedo, Quilambe (which is 12 leagues ofif in 

 the sierra) and Liquiman, Costasacate (which is 8 leagues away on 

 the Buenos Ayres road) and in the same direction 20 leagues from 

 the city, Rio Tercero, on which is the parish of Don Rodrigo de 

 Guzman, and other settlements on the banks of that same river ; on 

 the banks of the Rio Cuarto, 30 leagues toward Chile, there are other 



