Chap. HI. ^ M El^IC A. 40? 



Water- and fdmetimes Salt is found betwen frefh-Water Brooks. The Natives, 

 who are valiant, fubtile, and well proportion^, are fince their giving over eating 

 of Mans-flefti much increased, and many of them forfaking their Heathenifh Idola- 

 try, have embrac'd the P^omanXatholtck Religion. 



4. Lafalma, built Amwi^t- in a certain Territory, the People whereof were 

 antieritly call'd Mufi and Colym*. 



5. Trinidad, which is indeed the antient Tnde/4 renew'd, or a City fprung out of 

 the Ruines thereof. This Tudela flood on the Shore of the River Zarbi, which run- 

 ning between high Mountains, makes the Rivulet Turatcna, and in the fame Terri- 

 tory as La Talma above mention'd, V.'^, of the Mufi & Co(?m*,by whom the Spaniards, 

 who had here a Colony, were fo exceedingly molefted,that they deferted the fame, 

 together with their Governor Peter de Orfua : yet not long after the forfaken Place 

 was again re-built by the Name of Trinidad ■ but that Place proving incommodi- 

 ous, was again abandon'd, and a nwTrinidad built, where now it is to be feen on a 

 convenient place Eaftward from the high and cold Mountain Paramo. From fevc- 

 ral rich Gemmaries thereabouts are digg'd ftore of Emeraulds, Cryftal like Dia- 

 monds, white Marble, and the Beryl, efpccially on the Mountains Ytoco and Abift. 



6. Tunia, having a Territory about it, to which it gives Denomination y It lies 

 on a'hi"h Hill, from whence the Church and two Cloyfters of the Dominican Fry- 

 ers are feen at a great diftance. Here alfo is kept the greateft Market in 2v> 



Granada. ■ '■ _.- - t ,. 



7. Pamplona, fixty Leagues diftant from St. By to the North-Eaft, abounding 



with Cattel and Gold. - 



8. Merida, furrounded With Corn-Fields, the fartheft Town of this Province 



North-Eaftward towards Venezuela. 



a. $ele K , which though it fuffers great prejudice by a burning a Mountain that 

 vomits Fire and Stones, and alfo Thunder and Lightning, is the greateft Refidence 

 of feveral Orders of Fryers. "" • ^ 



10. Mareauita, otherwife call'd St. SebafliandelOro, which lies under a hot Cli- 

 mate, and hath much Pafture. 



1 1 . Uague, the Habitation chiefly of Dominicans. 



n. La nttoria de los %emedios . and 13. Juande los Lanos, or St. John of the Plains 

 fcated in a rich Nook of the Countrey, where there are good Silver and Gold- 



The Merchandife that come to thefe Towns,are brought up the River Magdakna 

 in Canoos of fixty Foot long. 



Sect. Ill* 



i 



Popayana. 



POmana, the other part of this new Kingdom, is border'd on the Weft With jg£j^ 

 part of Granada laft fpoken of,from which the River St. Martha divides ,t for j£.- ' 

 the moft part: On the North it hath KoVa Andahzia, or Cartbagena-, on the 

 Weft, Mare del Zur . and on the South, Quito, or rather fome unredue'd Countrey s 

 lying betwixt them both ; It extends in length above a hundred Leagues frorn 

 North to South, but in breadth, betwixt the River and the South Sea not much 

 above forty or fifty. The Countrey is faid to be a little too much fubjeft to Rain, 

 yet not fo,butthat the fertility of the Soil anfwersthe induftry of the Inhab.tants 



in moft places very well, ^ ^ ^^ 





