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The jurlfdidion contains thefe principal villages : 



I. Zichios Mayor. X. San Miguel de Molleambato. 



II. Zichios Manor. XI. Saquifili. 



III. Yungas, or Colorados. XII. Pugili. 



IV. Yfilimbi. XIII. Tanicuchi. 

 V. Chifa-Halo, or Toacafo. XIV. Cuzubamba. 



VI. Pillaro. XV. Tifaleo. 



VII. San Phelipe. XVI. Angamarca. i 



VIII. Mula-Halo. XVII. Pila-Halo. 



IX. Alaquez. 



The air of this afliento is the colder, from the place being only fix leagues from the 

 mountain of Cotopaxi, which, as it is not lefs in height and extent than thofe of Chira- 

 borazo and Cayamburo, fo it is, like them, covered with ice and fnow. The com- 

 buftible fubftances within the bowels of this mountain, firfl declared themfelves in 

 the year 1533, when Sebaflian and Belalcazar, who undertook the conqueft of this 

 province, had entered it, and proved very favourable to the enterprife. For the 

 Indians, poflefled with the truth of a prediction of their priefls, that, on the burfling 

 of this volcano, they would be deprived of their country, and reduced under the 

 government of an unknown prince, were fo ftruck with the concurrence of the 

 burfling of this volcano, and the invafion of a foreign army, that the fpirit, which 

 univerfally began to fhow itfelf in the preparatives every where made for a vigorous 

 refiftance, entirely left them, and the whole province eafily conquered, all its caciques 

 fubmitting to the King of Spain. The large plain in which this afliento (lands is full 

 of rocks, ejeded at that fuppofed ominous eruption, and fome of them to the diflance 

 of five leagues from its roots. In the year 1743, while we were on thecoaft of Chili, 

 a fecond eruption happened, the particulars of which we fhall relate in another place. 



The temperature of the air is very different in the feveral villages of this jurifdidion ;^ 

 being hot in thofe lying in the valleys ; temperate in thofe fituated on the plains ; whilfl 

 the air in thofe bordering on the mountains, like that of the afliento, is cold, and 

 fometimes to an exceflive degree. The villages are in general larger, and more popu- 

 lous than thofe of the other jurifdi£lions in the fame province. Their inhabitants are 

 Indians, Meftizos, and a few Spaniards. 



Befides the parifh church, which is ferved by two priefl:s, one for the Spaniards, and 

 the other for the Indians, this affiento has convents of Francifcans, Auguftines, Domi- 

 nicans, the Fathers of Mercy, and a college of Jefuits. The churches of thefe reli- 

 gious are well built, decently ornamented, and kept very neat. The inhabitants, by 

 the neareft computation, amount to between ten and twelve thoufand, chiefly Spaniards 

 and Meft:izos. Among the former are feveral families of eminent rank and eafy cir- 

 cumftances, and of fuch virtues and accompHfliments as add a luftre to their happy 

 fituation. The Indians, as at Quito, live in a feparate quarter adjoining to the 

 country. 



In this afliento all kinds of trades and mechanic arts are carried on ; and, as in all 

 the other parts of this jurifdidion, it has a confiderable number of manufadories of 

 cloth, bays, and tucuyos. Great quantities of pork are faked here for exportation to 

 Quito, Guayaquil, and Riobamba, being highly efl;eemed far the peculiar flavour given 

 to it in the pickling, and which it ever after retains. 



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