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rifech in the Province of Tent, and runneth a Courfe of little lefs than five thou. 

 land Miles, difcharging it felf at laft into the North Sea,through a Channel,as fome 

 fay, of threefcore Leagues broad, and yet with fuch a violent Current or Stream, 

 that it is laid to keep its natural colour and tafte almoft thirty Miles in the Sea. 



2. Orenoque, by fome call'd %aliana, from Sir Walter %aleigh, who endeavor'd to 

 difcover it, a River of the Province of Guiana, whofeHead or Spring is not yet dif- 

 cover'd : It is faid to be Navigable a thoufand Miles together by the talleft Ships, 

 and no lefs than two thoufand by Pinnaces and fmaller Veflels,and difchargeth it felf 

 like wife into the North Sea by fixteen fevetal Channels or Mouths, making thereby 

 fcveral I/lands • fome whereof are faid to be of good bignefs, and to lie at adiftance 

 of a hundred Miles or more one from the other. 



j. Maragnon, a River of a yet larger Courfe than any of the former, being, as 

 'tis faid, no lefs than fix thoufand Miles from its Head, which is out of the Andes in 

 Peru, to its Fall, which is likewife into the North Sea about Cape Blanco, by a Chan- 

 nel of feventy Leagues in breadth. 



4. %io de la Plata, otherwife call'd Paraguay, a River of two thoufand Miles 

 Courfe, and falling as the reft into the North Sea, by a Channel of threefcore 

 Miles over, and about thirty Degrees Southward of the Line, towards the Straights 

 of Magellane, 



The ^ndes, ox Mountains before mentioned being the moft noted, and biggeft 

 of all America, and indeed of the whole World, and thought by Cortefius to be the 

 fame with Sephar, fpoken of in the tenth Chapter of Genejis, run above a thoufand 

 Leagues in length from Ttmama, a Town of 7$ew Granada in the Province of Po* 

 payan, and are in the narroweft place about twenty Leagues broad 5 and alio of 

 equal heighth with, if not higher than Caucafus it felf : the Afcent to them is un- 

 paiTable, except in very few places, by reafon of craggy Precipices, and wild over- 

 grown pathlefs Woods, ferving onelyfora fhelterto Serpents and other poyfonous 

 Animals, which are there fo numerous, that a whole Army of one of the Kings of 

 Peru is reported to have been deftroy'd by them } and what-ever People there are 

 inhabiting in any of thefe Woods and Faftneffes, muft needs be in the very utmoft 

 degree of rude and brutifli falvagenefs. 



Some divide Southern America into Peruviana and Brafiliana : Peruviana they fub- 

 divide into TerraFirma and Peru ; Brafiliana into Srafile and Paraguay : But the moft 

 received and commodious Divifion is into thefe particular Provinces following, all 

 of them wealthy and large, vi^. 1. CaHella Aurea, or Golden Caflile. 2. 2>{oy a Granada 

 or The New Kingdom, as they call it. 3. Peru, fpecially fo call'd, 4. Chile, j. Para* 

 guay. 6.firafile. 7. Guiana. 8. Laftly Paria, with fome leffer Iflands adjoyning t o 

 all or moft of thefe Provinces, and commonly reckon'd as part of them. 



Ihe Moun- 

 tains Jndts. 





Defcriprion 

 uf Cajtelia 

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C H A P. II. 

 Cailella Aurea, otherwife call'd Terra Firma. 



CJJiella del Oro, as the Spaniards call it, or Golden Caftile, taketh up all the reft of 

 the Ifihmus, or Straight of Darien, which hath not been yet fpoken of, being 

 bounded Eaftward, and to the North-Eaft, with the Atlantick Ocean - and 

 on the Weft with Mare delZur, and fome.part of Veragua j Southward it hath the 



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