in 







The Third Book, 



CONTAINING 



A DESCRIPTION 



O F 



PER U A N A 



O R, 



Southern America. 







CHAP. I. 



Aving compleated our Defcriptibn of VLcxicana, or 2fyr- |^ ort of dni 

 them America, being that great Teninfula which lies North* ****£*, *) 

 ward of the Isthmus, or Straight oiDarien, together with all 

 the Iilandson the North fide of the Equinoctial Line, we 

 come now to the Southern Part, otherwife call'd Teruana, 

 from Peru the chief Kingdom thereof, being the other 

 great Teninfula , which lies Southward of the aforefaid 

 Straight : It is generally refcmblcd to the form of a Pyra- 

 mid reversed; the Bafis whereof, that is to fay, the more Southerly parts of it to- 

 wards Magellanic a and the Straights, extend themfelves largely both Eaft and Weft, 

 becoming more fliarp and ftreight towards the North, and thofe parts by which it 

 is joyn'd to Mexicana : in the whole it is fuppos'd to contain a Circuit of feventeen 

 thoufand Miles at leaft, and is water'd with four of the greatcft Rivers of the 

 World, befides abundance of leiTer Streams, which ifluingfrom the Andes and other 

 Mountains of the Countrey, do run from all Parts both into the North and South 

 Sea, much fertilizing the Countreys through which they pafs 5 the four principal 

 are thefc following : 



i. Orellana, fo called from the firft Difcovery thereof by Francifcu* de Oreiland, 

 otherwife the River oijmazons, from a Generation of warlike Women, who (as the 

 Tradition goes) inhabited certain Countreys lying upon the Banks thereof. This 



Pp rifeth 



The chief Ri- 

 Virs taw-rcyt. 



