34© A VOYAGE TO Book VI. 



This jurisdiction being so large, and containing many 

 towns and villages, is divided into several depart- 

 ments, over each of which the principal governor 

 nominates a deputy for the administration of justice, 

 and introduces them to the audience to which they 

 belong, where his nomination is confirmed ; a cir- 

 cumstance necessary to procure them all the weight 

 and security in the several departments which are con- 

 ferred on them. Those which form the government 

 of Popayan are, 



I. Santiago di Cali. VII. Almaguer, 



II. Santa Fé de Antioquia. VIII. Caloto. 



III. Las Quatro Ciudades. IX. San Juan de Pasto. 



IV. Timana. X. El Raposo. 

 V. Guadalajara de Buga. XI. Barbacoas. 



VI. S. Sebastian de ia Plata. 



In each of these departments, besides the chief 

 town, are several others very large and well peopled ; 

 and great numbers of seats and farm-houses, wher-e 

 the r umber of people employed gives them the ap- 

 pearance of villages rather than private dwellings. 



Of the above-mentioned departments, those to- 

 wards the north and east of the city of Popayan, 

 as Santa Fé de Antioquia, Las quatro Ciudades, 

 Timana, and S. Sebastian de la Plata, belong to the 

 audience and province of Santa Fé ; the others ly- 

 ing nearer to Quito belong to its province ; and 

 those of San Juan de Pasto, and Barbacoas, are 

 within its diocese. 



The departments of Cali and Buga, lying betwixt 

 the governments of Popayan and Choco, thrive, as 

 being the channel of the commerce which is carried 

 on continually betwixt those two governments : 

 whereas it is otherwise with that of Almaguer, from 

 the smallness of its jurisdiction, and the little traffic 

 there. That of Caloto, as its extent is considerable, 



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