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Havens. 



A Af E %^I C A. Chap. V. 



Hilt Elmal <Pai*, which confifts of great Stones and Aflies, wonderfully mixt toge- 

 ther : No lefs wonderful is a Brook which flows in the Night till Morning and 

 then finks into the Ground : And in the Countrey Choluteca is another, which hides 

 k lelf at Noon, and appears again towards Night. The Cavern which formerly 

 produe'd Fire and Smoke, now affords good Water to the Village Curcatan, and 

 City Salvador : Near the Village I^tepegve are five Springs, which call up Allom 

 and Sulphur. The Natives Chontales which fpeak feveral Languages, flock to the 

 Village Mmilla, to make Offerings, not far from hence are two Pits, one of 

 which is full of boyling Water, and the other as cold as Ice : Moreover, Cocori lies 

 near a high Mountain, on the top of which is a very turbulent Lake. 



The chiefeft Haven of this Countrey, which lies along the South-Sea, is <Babia 

 de Fonfeca, Difcover'd by Oonfahes VaVila, Jnno 1 522. and fo nam'd from>w» %o. 

 drigas de Fonfeca, Bifhop of Burgos ■ In the middle thereof appears the Ifland <P*tro- 

 nelU, with nine others, of which four are inhabited by Indians. 



The good conveniency of the Haven Fonfeca, indued fome of the Spaniards to 

 make a new Paffage from the fide of the Southern Ocean, to the Northern, «*$ 

 from Panama to Sombre de Dios, defigning it to reach from the faid Haven Fonfeca, 

 unto fueno de Carellos, which are diftant one from the other forty five Leagues ; 

 moft of it good way, except fome over-grown Mountains, which might be made 

 paffable with little trouble ; to which purpofe they built the Town Buena Esjeran- 

 ia, yet neverthelefs the Work remain'd unprofecuted. 



There are moreover reckon'd as appertaining to Guatimala, the fmall Provinces 

 Soconufco, Suclutepec, and Chtlulteca, the chief of them being Soconufco, to which be- 

 longs the Town of Oevetlan, where the Spanijh Governor hath his Refidence ; the 

 reft feem to be onely fmall Territories about Towns of the fame Name, in like 

 manner as St. Salvador, and St. Miguel beforcmention'd. 





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CHAP. V. 

 The Kingdom of Mexico , or New-Spain. 



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r E*> Spain, the chiefeft part of the Northern America, reckons in length from 

 the Eaft-Point of Yucatan, to the place where JMechoacon juts againft Gua- 

 dalajara three hundred and fixty Leagues ; and in breadth from the 

 Northern parts oifanucos, to the Southern Ocean, a hundred and eighty Leagues; 

 befides a great part which lies to the Northward , behind inacceflable Mountains 

 and WildernelTes ; inhabited by the Tepecuaenes, Guachucuks, Cacatequas, Tecaxquines, 

 and others-, and was, before the Spaniards Conquer'd and Difmember'd it, much, 

 larger than now it is . for as much as it comprehended the whole Province of 

 NeV'Galltcia, and reach'd from the furtheft Point of the Teninfula of Jucatan South- 

 ward as far as TStjwMfcay , and the Confines of California Northward ; containing 

 in length feven hundred Leagues and more, and about half as much in breadth : 

 But fince the Conqueft by Hernando Corte^ and his Followers, the whole Countrey 

 ofTSlew-Gatlicia is taken from it, and made a diftinft Government or Judkncia , -as 



the Spaniards call it, ofitfelf. 



The 



