3TJQ ovalle's historical relation of chile. 



The Conclujion. 



THOUGH Father Ovalle has continued, in the remainder of his treatife, to give an 

 account of the various events of the war with the Araucanos, in which narrative he 

 runs through the commands and aftions of all the governors of Chile, to the peace 

 made with that nation ; yet it being by him more a piece of courtfhip to his nation, and 

 to thofe families, than an information inftrudive to a foreign reader, it has been thought 

 proper to take the death of that great general Caupolican for the firft natural period of 

 that war. In the courfe of the remaining narrative, there are fo many fuperftitious 

 notions inculcated, fo many improbable miracles given for the foundation of great en- 

 terprizes, and fuch a monkifh fpirit runs through the work, that here, in England, it 

 would rather prejudice than recpmmend the impreliion, and is therefore omitted. 



