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found it true , that the Province beft peopled at the 70- 

 dies be in this fcituation. Let vs looke ncere ly into new 

 Spatnc , (.the which without doubt is the beft Province 

 the Sunne dooth circle) by what parte foeveryou doc 

 enter, you mount vp; and when you have mounted a 

 good height, youbeginnetodefccnd> yet very little : 

 and that land is alway es much higher then that along 

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All the land about Mexico is of this nature and fcitu 

 ation- and that which is about the Vulcan, which is the 

 beft f bile of the Indies ^ asalfoin/Vr// 5 Arequipa, Gtta. 

 mangtuanA Cufco, although more in one then in the o- 

 ther. But in the end,all is high ground , although they 

 defcend intodeepe vaUeies^andclimbevppetohigh 

 mountaines : the like is fpoken offt/tt0,SawtI'*y,2nd 

 of the beft of the new kingdome. To conclude , I doe 

 beleeve that the wifedome and providence of the Cre 

 ator would have it fb, that the greateft parte of this 

 countrey of the Indies fliould be hillie,that ittnight be 

 of a better temperature : for being lowe , it had beenc 

 Very hotte vnder the burning Zone , efpecially being 

 farre from the fea . Alfo all the land I have feene at the 

 Indies ]& ncere to the mountaines on the one fide or the 

 other, and fbmetimesofallpartes : So as I have often- 

 rimes (aide there, that Ivvoulde gladly' fee anyplace,, 

 from whence the horizon did fafTiion it felfeandend 

 by the heaven, and a countrey ftretched out and even, 

 as we fee in Spawe in a thou fand champaine fields; yet 

 doe I not remember that I have ever feene fuch figh tes 

 at the indies ,. were it in the Hands, or vpon the maine 

 land, although 1 have travelled above feaven hundred 

 leagues in length. Butaslhavefaidv% theneerenefTeof 

 the mountaines is very commodious in this region, to 



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