248 A VOYAGE. TO BookVÍII. 



being the cafe, inhabited in any proportion to its 

 fertility and extent; but for want if)f a fufficit-nt 

 number of hands, their commerce is at a verv 1 )W 

 ebb, confifling almoft intirely in provifions, wine, 

 &c. and this is fo imail, that it is chiefly carried oa 

 by only a fmgle ihip coming unce a year from Calh3^; 

 to load with them, together with a fe>v others trading 

 to Chi'.oe L,r Baldivia, and in their return touch here. 

 Thrir ixports are tallow, grafía, cordovan, bend lea- 

 ther, excellent butter, wines, and dried fruits. The 

 goods bicught hitiier in exchange aie the feveral forts 

 of woollen llufFs from Quito, and others from Europe, 

 iron, and mercury. • Verj^ iew Eurt>pean goods are 

 ho ..ever irt'Dortedj for the people here, not being re- 

 markable f r the'r riches, ufe only home-made Huffs 

 and j.iys, wiiub 'hough ixtremely good are in no great 

 quandty. The cominerce carried on between the in- 

 hcibitanLS of Chili, and the Arauco Indians, ihall be 

 mentioficd in its proper place. 



CHAP. VI. 



Defcripicn of Concfptíon Bay ; its reads or harhoursy 

 fiJJOi &c. and tie Jmgular m'mcs of Jh ells in it i nagh- 

 bourhocd. 



'T^HF, buy of Conception, bebdes its excellent 

 •*■ bottom, is of fuch an extent, as not to be 

 equjlled by any on the whole coail. For from 

 TierraT^^irma, north and fouth, its length is nearly 

 three leagues and a half, and its breadth from eail 

 to weft, almoft three leagues, being the diftance 

 betwixt the haib^uir of 1 alcaguano, and the Ci- 

 rillo virde, or little green mountain, fituated near 

 the tit; ; troiji wi.e:icc ,its breadth is contraded by 

 the iflui.d oí Quiricjuina, which lying in the mouth 



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