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into stone, and for that cause some horses have died. As LlIJ - m - 

 this water turnes into stone, the which flowes stoppes the 

 passage to the rest, so as of necessitie it changeth the 

 course, and for this reason it rurmes in divers places as the 

 rocke increaseth. At the point of Cape S. Helen there is 

 a spring or fountaine of pitch, which at Peru they call 

 Copey. This should be like to that which the Scripture 

 speakes of the wild valley, where they did finde wells of 

 pitch. The Mariners vse these fountaines or wells of 

 Copey to pitch their ropes and tackling, for that it serves 

 them as pitch and tarre in Spaine. When I sailed into 

 Kew Spaine by the coast of Peru the Pilot showed me an 

 Hand, which they call the lie of Wolves, where there is 

 another fountaine or well of Copey or pitch, with the which 

 they anoint their tackling. There is an other fountaine 

 of pitch, which the Pilot (an excellent man in his charge) 

 tolde me he had seene, and that sometimes sailing that 

 waies, being so farre into the sea as he had lost the sight 

 of land, yet did he know by the smell of the Copey where 

 he was, as well as if he had knowne the land, such is the 

 savour that issues continually from that fountaine. At the 

 baths, which they call the baths of the Ynca, there is 

 a course of water which conies forth all hote and boiling, 

 and ioyning vnto it there is another, whose water is as cold 

 as ice. The Ynca was accustomed to temper the one with 

 the other, and it is a wonderfull thing to see springs of so 

 contrarie qualities so neere one to the other. There are an 

 infinite number of other hote springs, specially in the Pro 

 vince of Charcas, in the water whereof you cannot indure to 

 hold your*hand the space of an Ave Maria, as I have seene 

 tried by wager. In a farme neere to Cuzco springs a foun 

 tain of salt, which as it runs turns into salt, very white and 

 exceeding good, the which, if it were in another countrie, 

 were no small riches, yet they make very small accournpt 

 thereof for the store they have there. The waters which 



