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With Silver, which they call Mate ; 

 they add Sngar, and pour the hot 

 Water upon it, which they drink 

 immediately, without giving it time 

 to infufe, becaufe it turns black as 

 Ink. To avoid fwallowing the Herb, 

 which fwims at the Top, they make 

 life of a filver Pipe, at the End 

 whereof is a Bowl full of little 

 Holes ; fo that the Liquor fuck'd in 

 at the other End is clear from the 

 Herb. They drink round with the 

 fame Pipe, pouring hot Water on 

 the fame Herb, as it is drunk off. 

 Inftead of a Pipe, which they call 

 Boinbilla, fome part the Herb with 

 a filver Separator, call'd Apartador, 

 full of little Holes. The Reludan- 

 Cy which the French have fliewn to 

 drink after all Sorts of People, in a 

 Country where many are pox'd, has 

 ©ccafion'd the inventing the Ufe of 

 little glafs Pipes, which they begin 

 to ufe at Lima. This Liquor, he 

 fays, in his Opinion, is better than 

 Tea ; it has a Flavour of the Herb, 

 which is agreeable enough : the 

 People of the Country are fo ufed 

 to it, that even the pooreit drink it 

 once a Day, when they rife in the 

 Morning. 



The Trade for this Herb (he fays) 

 is carried on at Santa Ft, whither it 

 is brought up the River of Plate. 

 There are two Sorts of it ; the one 

 called Terba de Pahs ; and the other, 

 which is finer, and of more Virtue, 

 Terba de Camini : the lail is brought 

 from the Lands belonging to the Je- 

 fuits : the great Consumption of it 

 is between La Paz and Cuzco, where 

 it is worth half as much more as the 

 other, which is fent from Potofi to 

 La Paz,. There come yearly from 

 Paraguay kito Peru about fifty thou- 

 fand Arrova's, twelve thoufand Hun- 

 dred-weight of both Sorts, whereof 

 at lead Cr.e-third is of the Camini, 

 « ithcot' reckoning, twenty-five thou- 



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fand Arrova's of that of Palos for 

 Cbily. They pay for each Parcel, 

 containing fix or feven Arrova's, 

 four Royals for the Duty called Al- 

 cavala (being a Rate upon all Goods 

 fold) ; which, with the Charge of 

 Carriage, being above fix hundred 

 Leagues, doubles the firft Price, 

 which is about two Pieces of Eight; 

 fo that at Potofi it comes to about 

 five Pieces of Eight the Arrova. The 

 Carriage is commonly by Carts, 

 which carry an hundred and fifty 

 Arrova's from Santa Fe to Jujuy, 

 the laft Town of the Province of Tu- 

 cuman ; and from thence to Potofi, 

 which is an hundred Leagues far- 

 ther, it is carried on Mules. 



What this curious Author has ob- 

 ferved, on there being two Sorts of 

 this Herb, may very well agree with 

 thofe two Sorts here mention'd, fmce 

 both of them are generally fuppofed 

 to agree "in their Qualities, though 

 one is much preferable to the other; 

 therefore I imagine the Verba de Ca- 

 mini is what we call Paraguay or 

 South-Sea Thea ; and Terba de Pa- 

 les to be our Caflioberry-bufh, the 

 Leaves of which are extreme bitter, 

 efpecially when taken green from 

 the Tree, and the Tafte is hardly to 

 be gotten out of the Mouth for fome 

 Hours after chewing a Leaf thereof. 

 But as our Author only faw the dried 

 Herb, he could no more diftinguifti 

 their Difference, than we can the 

 Thea brought from China j I mean, 

 as to the particular Trees which pro- 

 duce it. 



C A S T A N E A, The Cheftnut- 



tree. 



The Characters are ; 

 It hath Male Flowers, or Katkins, 

 which are placed at remote Dijiances 

 from the Fruit on the fame 'Tree : the 

 outer Coat of the Fruit is 'very rough, 

 and has two or three Nuts included i& 

 each H&Jk Of Covering. 



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