266 A VOYAGE TO Book VIII. 



in fpecie, the value of thirty thoufand in clothes for the 

 foldicrs, and io,oco in fpecie, whicn i= raid to the 

 king's officer^ ?t S^nnagrj, in order to j^orchafe flour, 

 charqui, grafía, and other neceliaries for the garrifon at 

 Valdivia. Thefe reinittances are conveyed in fhips 

 which fail ""rom Vaiparaiio. 



I. T^.PE juriidi(flion of Santiago we have already ob- 

 fervfd to be lim'ted to its bountJarics. 



II. Rancagta is a juriidi^^Hon in the country, and 

 o*-ves Its name from the inhabitants living in fiügie 

 hüufcs, without the appearance of a village, every 

 family in their lonely cottage, four, fix, or more 

 leagues horn each other. It is nor, however, without 

 a kind of capital, confifting of ab )Ut fifty houfes, 

 ard between fifty and fixty families, moft of them 

 Meíli;¿os, though their caft is not at all perceivable by 

 their complexion. The who'e jurifdiftion may contain 

 abo'.it a thoufand families, Spaniards, Mellizos, and 

 Indians 



III. CoLCHAGUA refembles in every circuPáñance 

 the former, except its being better peopled ; its inha- 

 bitants ac>.xrding to the btit computations, amounting 

 to fifteen hundred families. 



IV. Chii an is a fmall place, but has the title of city, 

 the number of families, by an accurate calculation, not 

 exceeding mo ui :Hrec hundred, and having few Spa- 

 niards among them. 



V. Aco.\cagl'a is a very fmali place at the foot of 

 the mountains, but the country is interfperfed \^ith a 

 great number offinglc houfes. The valley of the fame 

 name is fo delightful, tiiat a town called Phelipe le Real, 

 was built in it in 1741. 



VI. ISIelipiljla made no better figure than the fore- 

 going jurifdidions, till the year 1742, when a town 

 was ereiftcd in it by the name of St.Jofeph de Lon- 

 gronno. 



V1Í. Q^iLLOTA. The town of this name does not 



conrain 



