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direction. The Cordillera dividís it into two parts; 

 the highest called Canas and the lowest Canches. 

 The latter by reason of its temperate air yields all 

 kinds of grains and fruits; whilst the former afiords 

 pasture for very numerous flocks and herds ; and in 

 the meadows between the eniinences are fed no less 

 than tweiity-fivc or thirty thousand mules, brought 

 thither from Tuciima to pasture. Here is a very 

 great fair for these creatureS;, to which dealers resort 

 from all parts of the diocess. In the part called Canas 

 is the famous silver mine Condonoma. 



IX. About forty leagues S.W.from Cusco isthe ju- 

 Jisdiction of Aymaraes, which extcndst hirty farther, 

 and like the former has different temperatures of air. 

 The lands abound in sugar, cattle, and grain; and 

 also in mines of gold and silver, which formerly pro- 

 duced large quantities of those valuable metals; but 

 at present few of them are wrought, the country 

 being too thinly inhabited. 



X. Something more than forty leagues from 

 Cusco, begins the jurisdiction of Chumbi Vilcas, 

 which in some parts extends above thirty leagues, has 

 different temperatures of air, great quantities of com 

 and fruits, and large herds of cattle ; together with 

 some mines of silver and gold. 



XI. The jurisdiction of Lampabeginsthirty leagues 

 S. of Cusco, and is the principal of all the provinces 

 included under the name of Callao. Its plains are in- 

 terrupted with small hills, but both abound in good 

 pasture ; and accordingly this province is particularly 

 remarkable for its quantity of cattle, with which it 

 carries on a very profitable trade ; but (he air being 

 every where cold, the only fruits of the earth are 

 papas and quincas. Another very considerable ad- 

 vantage are its silver mines, being very rich, and con- 

 stantly worked. 



XII. The jurisdiction of Carabaya begins sixty 

 leagues S. E. of Cusco, and extends above fifty leair;ues. 



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