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new Spaine, there arc fbme vignes which beare grapes, 

 ^ x and yet make no wine. The caufe is, for that the grape 

 ripens not well, by reafon of the raine that falles in the 

 months of July and Auguft, which hinders their ripe- 

 - - ning, fo as they ferveonely to eate. They carry wine 

 out ofspaiwe, andf torn the Canaries, to all partes of the 

 ^ 'T '" '*' Indies, except Peru and the realme of Ckitte, where there 

 are vignes that yeelde excellent wine , which increafe 

 daily both in quantity ,for that it is a great jiches in that 

 country, and in beauty, for that they are Ifrcome with 

 time and pra&ife cnore?expert vignerous . The vignes 

 of Peru are commonly in hote vaflies , where there are 

 >v- - ; %.< waters,which they water with the hand, beapfe there ; 

 x* ,,-r.i fallcs no raineatallfrom heaven; and vppondieZ^w 

 v ,,. v and siare it comes not in time. Thereat Ibme places 

 where the vignes are not watered, neither from heaven 

 nor earth, and yet they increafe in great aboundance, 

 ** - -- as in the valley of Tea, and in the ditches that they call 

 . - > ^\ VtHACt(i,m which places they finde ditches, or th'earth 

 funcke downeamongeft the dead ftnds,which are tho- 

 rowout the yeare of a woonderfull coolencfle; .and yet 

 it raines not there at any time, neither is there any ma- 

 ner of mean es to water it artificially^ the reafon is, be- 

 caufe the foile is fpongious, and fuckes vp the water of 

 the rivers that fall from the mountaine, which moiften 

 thefe fands , or elfe it is the rraoiftnefle of t^e fca , as o- 

 theis fuppofe , which paffing over this fand , is the 

 caufe why it is not barren nor vnprofi table, as the Phi- 

 lofopher teaches. The vignes havefo increafed there,as 

 for this caufe onely the tithes of the Churches are mul 

 tiplied five or fixe times double within thefe twentic 

 yeares.Thcmofl: fertile vallies for vignes be Viftor nearc 

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