Ch.XV. south AMERICA. ÍS3 



cesses, it now remains only fo conclude my de- 

 scription of the kingdom of Peru, with an account 

 of the kini^'dom and audience of Chili ; but the 

 m my objects of imporiancc in it so well deserves 

 to be fully treated of, that Í I]iouíi:]ií proper to re- 

 serve them for the following' book ; those included 

 in this, as I have mentioned in its place, merited a 

 much greater prolixity ; for from what has been 

 S3.[á in the iirst vobune of the province of Quito, 

 some idea of the diifercnce between the two witli 

 regard to the ntunber of people, towns and villages, 

 trade and commerce, may be conceived ; the pro- 

 vince of Quito having only one diocci-s, and part 

 of another; whereas Lima contains fine archbishop- 

 riek, and four bishopricks ; and that of Charcas on-j 

 bishoprick more than that of Lima, In the province 

 of Quito only a few mines are worked, and those to 

 little advantage; whereas the mines of Lima and 

 Charcas, by th^ir immense riches, draw thither great 

 nuni])ers of traders and industrious people, and thus 

 pprcad wealili and ailluence through tiie whole coun- 

 try, by the brisk circulation of trade. It must how- 

 ever be owned, that the lunnber of people in these 

 provinces bear no proportion to their extent ; and it 

 is with too much truth said, that they arc in manv 

 places almost destitute of people; for supposing a 

 corregidor to have twenty \illages under his juris- 

 diction ; yet if the least extent of it be thirty leagues 

 one way, and lifteen another, they must be very 

 thin. For draw a parailelogram of that dimension, 

 it will contain 450 square leagues of ground, and 

 consequently the share of each village will be twen- 

 ty-two square leagues and a half. This calcula- 

 tion is made from the smaiiest distances, there bciiig 

 jurisdictions of a far greater extent; and others, 

 which, though equal in dimensions, have not twen- 

 ty viilages. What has been said of the products and 

 manufactures in each jurisdiction must beimderstood 



