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2. San Pedro, for poor ecclesiastics. 



3. El Espíritu Santo, for mariners, and supported 

 by the ships belonging; to these seas, their crews being 

 properly assessed for that purpose. 



4. St. Bartholome, for the negroes. 



5. Señora Santa Anna, for the Indians. 



6. San Pedro de Alcantara, for womeni 



7. Another for that use, under the care of the Beth- 

 lemite fathers, erected before their Casa grande. 



8. La Caridad, also for women. 



9. San Lázaro, for the lepers, which with those 

 already enumerated, make twelve. 



Here are also 14 nunneries, the number of persons 

 in which would be sutRcient to people a small town. 

 The 5 first are regulars, and the other 9 recollects. 



I. La Encarnation. 2. La Conception. 3. San- 

 ta Cathalina. - 4. Santa Clara. 5. La Trinidad. 6. 

 El Carmen. 7. Santa Teresa, ó El Carmen baxo. 8, 

 Las Descalzas de San Joseph. 9. Las Capuchinas. 

 10. Las Nazarenas. 11. Las Mercidarias. 12. Santa 

 Rosa. 13. Las Trinitarias Descalzas. 14. Las Mon- 

 das del Prado. 



Lastly, Here are four other conventual houses, 

 where some few of the sisters are not recluses, though 

 most of them observe that rule. These houses are : 



1 . Santa Rosa de Viterbo. 2. Nuestra Señora del 

 Patrocinio. 3. Nuestra Señora de Capacabana, for 

 Indian ladies. 4. San Joseph. 



The last is a retreat for women who desire to be di- 

 vorced from their husbands. There is also a house con- 

 stituted in the manner of convents, for poor women, 

 and under the direction of an ecclesiastic appointed 

 by the archbishop, who is also their chaplain. 



The most numerous of all these nunneries, are 

 the Incarnation, Conception, Santa Clara, and Santa 

 Cathalina. The others are indeed not so large ; but 

 the Recollects, in the rectitude and austerity of their 

 lives, are an example to the whole city. 



