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or eafterly windes have blowen : yea , all the time they . 

 have continued, as it happened in (even tie eight, vpon 

 the Lanos of Tr//g///0,where it rained aboundantly, the 

 which they had not feenc in many ages before . More 

 over, it rain es vpon the famecoaft, in places, whereas 

 the Eafterly or Northerne windes be ordinarie , as in 

 Guayaquil, and in places whereas the land rifeth much, 

 and turnes from the fliadow of the moun taines, as in 

 thofe that are beyond Ariqu* . Some difcourfe in this 

 mancr , but let every one thinkeas he pleafei It is mod 

 certaine, that comming from the mountaines to the 

 vallics, they do vfually fee as it were tvvo heavens , one 

 cleere and bright above, and the other obfcure , and as 

 it were a graievaile fpread vndcrneath 5 which covers 

 allthecoaft : and although it raine not, yet this mift is 

 wonderfull profitable to bring forth graffe, and to raife 

 vp and nourifli the (eede : for although they have plen- 

 tie of water, which they draw from the Pooles and 

 Lakes , yet this moifture from heaven hath fiich a ver- 

 tue,that ceafing to fal vpon the earth,it breedes a great 

 difcommoditie and dcfe$ ofgraine and feedes. And 

 that which is more worthy of admiration, thedrieand 

 barren iandes are by this deaw f b beautified with grafle 

 and flowers, as it is a pleafing and agreeable fight , and 

 verie profitable for the feeding ofcattell, as we fee in 

 the mountaine called Sandie, neereto the Cittie of 

 Kings, 



Ofthepropertie tfncw Spainc,0/V& lUnds^and of other 

 Lands, CHAP. 22. 



NEw Spaifie paileth all other Provinces in paftures, 

 which breedes infinite troopcs of horfe, kine, 



fheepe, 



