470 ULLOA's voyage to south AMERICA. 



All the neighbouring country is fowed with clover, and int;erfperfed with plantations 

 of willows, whofe perpetual verdure gives a cheerful afpeft to the country, and 

 heightens the pleafantnefs of the afliento. 



The Indians of Pugili and Saquifili are noted for making earthen ware, as jars, pans, 

 pitchers, &c. which are greatly valued all over the province of Quito. The clay of which 

 they are made is of a lively red, very fine, and emits a kind of fragrancy, and the work- 

 manfhip very neat and ingenious. 



V. The next jurifdidion fouth wards is Riobamba, the capital of which is the town 

 of the fame name. Its jurifdidion is divided into two departments ; the corregidor, 

 who refides at Riobamba, appointing a deputy, who lives at the affiento of Hambato, 

 fituated between the capital and Latacunga. In the firfl department are the following 

 principal villages : 



I. Calpi. X. Pungala. 



II. Lican. XI. Lito. 



III. Yaruquiz. XII. Guano. 



IV. San Luis. XIII. Hilapo. 



V. Cajabamba. XIV. Guanando. 



VI. San Andres. XV. Penipe. 



VII. Puni. XVI. Cubijis. 



VIII. Chambo. XVII. Cevadas. 



IX. Quimia. XVIII. Paladanga. 



The department of the affiento of Hamberto has, in its jurifdi£tion, fix principal 

 villages : 



I. Ifambo. IV. Pelileo. 



II. Quifupincha. V. Patate. 



III. Quero. VI. Santa Rofa de Pilaguin. 



This affiento ftands in the latitude of i° 41' 40" fouth, and 22' weft, of the city of 

 Quito. In 1533 it was an Indian town, of which Sebaftian de Belalcazar having 

 made himfelf mafter, the following year Marlhal Diego de Almagro laid the founda- 

 tion of the prefent affiento. It ftands in a very large plain furrounded by mountains ; 

 particularly on the north fide, which is bounded by Chimborazo, from the foot of 

 which it is at no great diftance. On the fouth fide is a lake called Colta, about a 

 league in length and three quarters of a league in breadth, where there are great num- 

 bers of wild geefe and gallaretas ; and its banks covered with plantations. 



The principal fquare and ftreets are very regular, ftraight, and airy ; the houfes of 

 a light ftone, but fomething heavier than the pumice made ufe of at Latacunga. Some, 

 efpecially thofe in and near the fquare, have a ftory ; but the others are univerfally 

 without any, being built low, on account of the earthquakes which this place has 

 often felt, particularly that already mentioned of 1698, when many of its houfes and 

 public buildings were thrown down. The Indians who inhabited this place, and all 

 thofe to the fouthward in this jurifdiftion, before their converfion to Chriftianity, 

 were known by the name of Puruayes ; and are to this day diftinguiftied from all the 

 other Indians in the whole province. 



Befides the great church, here is another called St. Sebaftian, with convents of the 

 fame orders as at Latacunga, and a nunnery of the Conception j contributions are ftill 



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