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A M E %^I C A. 



Sect. II. 



Rio de la Plata, properly fo call'd. 



Chap. VI. 



Situation of j 

 Kjo de l.i 

 PUta, pro- 

 perly focal I'd 



R 



Towns and 

 Places of 

 note. 



Situation of 

 tucuman. 



Towns and 

 chief Places 

 of note. 



Io de la Plata, properly fo call'd, is that part of the Countrey which extend- 

 eth it felf on both fides the River, in length many Leagues together, but 

 not anfwerable in breadth. 

 The chiefeft Towns of note in this Province, are i. (Buenos Ayres, by fome call'd 

 La Trinidad, on the Southern Banks of the River De la Plata, fixty four Leagues, as 

 they fay, from the Mouth of it : It is featcd commodioufly at the foot of a little 

 Mountain, and fortifi'd with a Mud-Wall, a little Cattle, and fome Pieces of 

 Ordnance. 



2. San Fe, in Englifh St. Faiths , fifty Leagues above Buenos Ayres, upon the fame 

 River, and a richer Place, chiefly by reafon of their Cloth, of which there is here 

 one of the greateft Manufactures of all thefe parts of Peru. 



3. Nuejira Sennora de la AJfumption, commonly call'd AJfumption onely, lying yet 

 higher up the River almoft a hundred Leagues, a well built and well frequented 

 Town, long fince inhabited by two hundred Families at leaft of natural Spaniards, 

 befides Mejli^ps, as they call them, which are the Breed of Spaniards by the Jmerican 

 People, Men or Women, and Mulattos, which are like wife their Race, but begotten 

 upon TS^egro's, of both which there are reckon'd to be here fome thoufands. 



4. La CiVtdad G{eal,ox more commonly call'd Ontiveros, fourfcore Leagues Norths 

 ward from AJfumption, feated on the Banks of the River Parana in a fruitful Soil, as 

 the Countrey generally is about all thefe Places 5 but the Air hereabouts is not fo 

 healthful. 



5. St. Anne, upon the fame River 5 and 6. St. Salvador. 



Sect. III. 



Tucuman. 



W Eft ward of La Plata lieth the Countrey of Tucuman,crtend'mg it felf as 

 far as the Borders of Chile, a Countrey not yet well difcovcr'd either 

 to the North or the South. That part of it which lieth towards 

 Chile is well Manur'd and Husbanded, and likewife very fruitful ; but that to- 

 wards Magellanica, neither the one, nor the other, remaining altogether untill'd and 

 barren. 



The chief Towns and Places of note, are u St. Jago de EJteco, the principal 

 Town of the Province, and a Bifhop's See, feated upon the River Efleco, a hundred 

 and fourfcore Leagues diftant from Buenos Ayres. 



2. St. Michael de Tucuman, feated at the foot of a huge rocky Mountain, but 

 ocherwife in a Soil the fruicfulleft and beft, both for Corn and Pafturage, in all 

 this Countrey, twenty eight Leagues diftant from St. Jago. 



3. Talavera, or Ts^uefira Sennora de Talavera, as the Spaniards call it, fituate upon the 

 Banks of Salado/m a good Soil, and inhabited by an induftrious People, grown ex- 

 ceeding rich and wealthy, chiefly by their Manufaftures of Cotton- Wooll, where- 

 of they have great plenty, and by which they drive a Trade as far as the Mines at 

 Potofi, and other parts of Peru. 



4. Corduba, another rich Town of this Province, and of great Trade, as lying 



at 



