m A VOYAGE TO Book VII. 



of a deaiij archdeacon, chanter, treasurer and rector ; 

 five canons/ four prebendaries and four minor pre- 

 bendaries. The archbishop and his chancellor con- 

 stitute the ecclesiastical tribunal. 



Here is also a tribunal of croisade, with a com- 

 missary, subdelégate, and other oiHcers : likewise a 

 court of inquisition subordinate to that of Lima, and 

 an office for taking care of the eflects of persons dy- 

 ing intestate; all established on the same foundatiou 

 with whose in other cities already mentioned. 



The jurisdictions belonging to the archbishoprick 

 of Plata, are the fourteen following: 



I. The city of Plata, and Imperial Town of 



Potosi. 



II. Tomina, VHI. Pilaya,andPa9paya. 



III. Porco. IX. Cochabamba. 



IV. Tarija. X. Chayantas. 



V. Lipes. XI. Paria. 



VI. Amparaes, XII. Carangas. 

 VIL Oruro. XIII. Cuacica. 



XIV. Atacama. 



I. The jurisdiction of city the of Plata is of such 

 prodigious extent at to include the imperial town 

 of Potosi, which is even the continual residence of the 

 corregidor. There also is established the office of 

 revenue, which consists of an accountant and trea- 

 surer, with clerks ; as most convenient on account 

 of its vicinity to the mines, for taking account of the 

 silver produced by them. 



The famous mountain of Potosi, at the foot of 

 which on the south-side stands the town of the same 

 name, is known all over the commercial world, as 

 having been greatly enriched by the silver it pro- 

 duces. The discovery of these immense mines hap- 

 pened in the year 1545, by an accident seemingly 

 fortuitous. An Indian, by some called C>ualca, and 

 by others Hualpa, pursuing some wild goats up 

 this mountain, and coming to a part very steep, he 

 5 " laid 



