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Remarks, 



The missions marked t, owe tlieir foundation to the 

 Jesuits, and came into the hands of the Franciscans 

 in the years mentioned in the table. Those marked 

 with letter V, are under the jurisdiction of Valdivia; 

 those marked O, under the jurisdiction of Osorno; 

 and those with the letter C, in the jurisdiction of 

 Chili. All are properly missions, except St. Barbara, 

 which is an hospital for those who are destined 

 for the conversion of the Pehuenche nation, which 

 inhabits the Cordilleras. The Franciscans had three 

 missions there, which are marked in the second 

 table with the letter P, together with the years 

 when they were lost. For want of missionaries 

 they have not been re-established, tliough, in 1803, 

 the Indians applied for them ; for they well know 

 how useful it is to them to have missionaries among; 

 them, to help them, and check their rage for blind 

 heathenism. In the same table the missions marked 

 C, belong to Chili, and those with V, to Valdivia. 



The three first missions in the second table are 

 situated in the Lower Alps of the Cordilleras de los 

 Andes, where, from the source of the river Nuble, 

 to the Archipelago of Chiloe, are the following 

 volcanoes : Chilian, Antuco, Callagui, Chandel, Villa- 

 rica, Huanchue, Copi, Llanguihue, and Purarauco. 

 It is to be observed, that at the foot of each of 



