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residing in its villages, who seem to have an innate 

 inclination to weaving; for besides the stuffs made at 

 the common manufactories, such Indians as are nat 

 Mitayos, or who are independent, make, on their 

 own account, a variety of goods, as cottons, carpets, 

 pavilions for beds, quilts in danriask work, wholly of 

 cotton, either white, blue, or variegated with dif- 

 ferent colours ; but all in great repute, both in the 

 province of Quito and other parts, where they are 

 sold to great advantage. 



The method of sowing wheat and barley in this 

 jurisdiction, is very different fram that used in any of 

 the former; for, instead of scattering the seeds, as is 

 commonly practised, they divide the ground, after 

 it is plowed, into several parts by furrows, and 

 along the sides of them they make little holes a 

 foot distant from one another, putting five or six 

 corns into each. However tedious this may be, it 

 is abundantly made up to the farmer by the uncom- 

 mon increase, which is usually above a hundred 

 fold. 



This jurisdiction has a great number of studs of 

 horses, and multitudes of black cattle, from whose 

 milk large quantities of cheese are made. This coun- 

 try is happily situated for pasture, being every where 

 Watered with an infinite number of rivulets. It has 

 also large flocks of sheep, though these seem to be 

 neglected, in comparison of the others* 



The village of Ca^ambe stands in the middle of a 

 spacious plain, at the end of which is the foot of the 

 mountain Cayamburo, one of the largest mountains of 

 the Cordilleras in this part of the country, being equal 

 in height to that ofChimborazo, and its summits co- 

 vered with snow and ice. Its altitude is so much 

 greater than the rest between it and Quito, that it 

 may be plainly seen from that city. The vicinity of 

 this mountain renders the whole plain of Cayambe 

 cold, which Í5 increased by the violence and continu- 

 ance 



