24t REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



trait of that warlike, eloquent, strong, and un- 

 mixetl nation, whose feelings of liberty, and skill 

 in the military art, opposed an insurmountable bul- 

 wark, first to the arms of the Incas, and afterwards 

 to the desolating conqueror of the New World. The 

 Peruvians did not penetrate farther south into 

 Chili than to the river llapel, and the Biobio has 

 remained the proper boundary of the Spaniards, 

 who, more to the south, possess only the places of 

 St. Pedro, Aranco, Yaldivia, the archipelago of 

 Chiloe, and inconsiderable frontier-posts, the road 

 to which leads through the independent country 

 of the Indians. 



We will not transcribe from other books on the 

 history of Chili, and its nations, as every person is 

 able to procure them. *Ovalle is faithful, detailed, 



♦ Ovalle (P. Alonzo) Breve Relacion del Reyno de Chili, 

 1646. Molina, Saggio sulla Storia Civile del Chili, 1787-8. 



The Ahh6 Giovanni Ignazio Molina, a native of Chili, is rec- 

 koned among the principal authors of the Italian literature. 

 We regret that his historical work has not, as well as his natural 

 historical work, been translated into German. In it, may be 

 found, a Catalogo di Scrittori delle cose del Chih ; an appendix 

 to it in Mithridates, 3d part, 2d division, p. 391. and the follow- 

 ing ; and in Linguarum totius Orbis Index, J. S. Pater, Ber. 

 1815. p. 18. 



Among the means for learning the Araucanian language, we 

 particularise B. Havestadt Chilidugu, Monast. 1777, which, 

 being more accessible than the various editions of Louis de 

 Valdivia, published at Lima, may be obtained by other philolo- 

 gers as well as ourselves. Molina gives, in his Saggio sulla 

 Storia Civile, a very accurate and clear picture of this beautiful 



