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which are temperate and fertile, as the greatest part of the LlB - m&amp;gt; 

 Plaines of Peru, where there are coole vallies and very 

 fertile. The greatest part of the habitation of the coast 

 entertaines all the traffike of Spaine by sea ; whereon all the 

 estate of the Indies dependeth. Ypon this coast there are 

 some Townes wel peopled, as Lima and Truxillo in Peru, 

 Panama, and Carthagena vppon the maine land, and in the 

 Hands San Domingo, Puerto Rico, and Havana, with many 

 other Townes which are lesse than these, as Vera Cruz in 

 New Spaine, Yea, Arica and others in Peru ; the ports 

 are commonly inhabited, although but slenderly. The 

 second sort of land is contrary, very high, and by con 

 sequent, colde and drie, as all the mountaines are com 

 monly. This land is neither fertile nor pleasant, but very 

 healthfull, which makes it to be peopled and inhabited. 

 There are pastures, and great store of cattell, the which 

 for the most parte entertaines life, and by their cattell 

 they supply the want they have of corne and graine by truck 

 ing and exchange. But that which makes these landes 

 more inhabited and peopled is the riches of the mines that 

 are found there, for that all obeys to golde and silver. By 

 reason of the mines there are some dwellings of Spaniards 

 and Indians which are increased and multiplied, as Potosi 

 and Huancavilica in Peru, and Cacatecas in New Spaine. 

 There are also through all these mountaines great dwellings 

 of the Indians, which to this day are maintained, yea, some V 

 will say they increase, but that the labourpf the mines dooth 

 consume many, and some generall diseases have destroyed 

 a great part, as the Cocoliste, in New Spaine, yet they finde 

 no great diminntion. In this extreamitie of high ground 

 they finde two commodities, as I have saide, of pastures and 

 mines, which doe well countervail the two other that are 

 in the lower grounds alongest the sea coast, that is, the 

 commerce of the sea and the aboundance of wine, which 

 groweth not but in the hot kndes. Betwixt these two ex- 



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