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all the time. In that year 1614 it had 346 houses, 285 of them very 

 well constructed, each with garden and orchard; all kinds of Spanish 

 fruit are remarkably good here. These houses would average 4,000 

 pesos in value; the 61 others are worth little; some of them are 

 thatched with icho or straw. There were 44 shops selling merchandise 

 and groceries. 



In these houses resided 306 married men and 230 bachelors. At 

 present the city is growing and they are putting up houses. Across 

 the river is a suburb called La Chimba with many chacras or gardens 

 containing olive groves, vineyards, large and small peaches, quinces, 

 pomegranates, pears, apples, pippins, apricots, plums, mazard cherries, 

 figs, very good melons, and frutilla de Chile, which are large 

 strawberries. 



1927. In the city of Santiago there is a Cathedral with a Bishop 

 and 9 Prebendaries who reside there and serve it ; there are 35 clerics 

 and curates who went and said Mass on the chacras and farms. 

 Besides the Cathedral there are 2 parish churches, those of San 

 Lazaro and San Saturnino, and 5 convents. The Dominican had 70 

 friars, with some revenue, a chacra, vineyard, and farm with 6 

 Negroes to work it ; the Franciscan had 40 friars ; the Augustinian, 

 with 30 friars, had a chacra and a vineyard, with 6 Negroes for 

 service and farm work ; the Mercedarian, 40 friars, with some revenue, 

 a chacra, vineyard, and cattle ranch ; the Jesuits, a few more than 

 30 friars, with some revenue, a vineyard, a chacra, and a farm with 

 20 Negroes for service and farm work. This was the state of afifairs 

 in the city of Santiago in the year 161 4. 



1928. There are 2 convents of nuns, one of Santa Monica and 

 under the rule, which had 90 nuns, with some income, a chacra, and 

 a vineyard for the support and comfort of the nuns. The other is 

 of Santa Clara, under the charge of the Franciscan friars ; it was 

 established by 13 nuns who came from the city of Osorno, which 

 was abandoned after the rebellion and general uprising of the Chilean 

 Indians at the end of the year 1598, when they killed Gov. Martin 

 Garcia de Loyola. His Majesty made them a gift of 6,000 pesos, 

 with which they bought a plot on which they were building in that 

 year 1614; at that time they had 30 nuns with some income and a 

 farm. Today it is an excellent convent and has grown a great deal. 



1929. There is a seminary supported by the 3 percent prescribed 

 by the Council celebrated at Lima in the year 1583 and presided over 

 by the sainted Archbishop Don Toribio Mogrovejo of glorious 

 memory, truthful and a good shepherd, full of care and zeal for the 

 flock of that new church ; in this council he assembled all the Bishops 



