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*A M E*KI C A 



Chap. IV. 





Towns and 

 Places ©f 

 chief note. 



River Guaca- it confiftsof a hard Cliff, at the Foot whereof is a great Arch, 

 through which the Water runs with exceeding forte. 



This Traft of Land produces Maii^, and abundance of Mortuanos, a Fruit refem- 

 bling Damask Prunes, which eaten in excefs caufe Drunkennefs and Faintnefs. 



The Lake Yaguarcocba, fignifying Bloody -Water, becaufe the Inga GuayanacaVa kill'd 

 and drown'd twenty thoufand there. 



The chief Towns and Places of Note are, i. Carangue^ antiently a Royal City, 

 where flood a fumptuous and (lately Palace of the Kings of Peru, now almoft dc» 

 ferted. The Palace, built of Stone in a little Plain, without either Mortar or Iron* 

 work, manifefts its former glory by its Ruines. 



The Royal Caftle oiAtabalo, or OttaVallis, in the building of which the Ingas 



1. 



fpar'd no Cod no* Charges • and indeed it is a Structure no way inferior to any of 

 the antient5fym<w Edifices. Between this Caftle and Cocbequi, a (lately Houfe, lies a 

 cold fnowy Mountain. Moreover, the Spaniards have feveral Habitations along 

 the Way to Quito, and efpecially in the Valley Jnnaquito, where the Vice*Roy Vela 

 loft the Battel fought againft Gonfaho fi^arro. 



3. Quito, commonly call'd St. Francifco de Quito. There flood formerly here cer- 

 tain Palaces,built by the lngas,h\xt the City was re-built by the Spaniards at the Foot 

 of a certain Ridge of Mountains, which it hath on the North and North-Weft fide 

 of it, and are faidby Laet } to crofsthe whole Countrey of Peru quite over from the 

 South to the North Sea : It was foon after the Building inhabited by five hundred 

 Families of Spaniards at lead, befides Natives, and well fortifi'd, and might be 

 thought a Town very well feated in allrefpe&s, but for the neighborhood of a 

 Vulcan, which at times annoyeth it very much, as namely in the Year 1560. when 

 it vomited out fuch abundance of flaming Cinders and other fulphureous Matter, 

 that had it not been for a Shower of Rain unexpectedly falling, would have much 

 damnifi'djif not deftroy'd the Place. The Natives about Quito are more Moraliz'd 

 than other (Peruvians. The Valleys which are warm'd by the Sun produce all man- 

 ner of Fruit-Trees and large Vineyards 5 and the Root Papas, not unlike Apples. 



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