5 8 Mr. WA FE Ks Uefcription 



Srf ™o anc * Mules. This Town is the great Rendezvous 

 rwlma. °f ^is part of the South-fea Coaft $ being 

 the Receptacle of the Treafures from Lima, 

 and other Sea-ports of Peru 3 trading alfo to- 

 wards Mexico, though very little beyond the 

 Gulph of Nicaragua. The Ring of Spain hath 

 a Prefident here, who adts in Concert with 

 his Council 3 and the Governour of Portobel 

 its Joiif- is under him. His Jurifdi&ion comprehends 

 <hftion. Nafa ^ fawlU, Leon, Realeja, 8cc. till he 

 meets with the Government of Guatimala 1 

 and Eaftward he commands over as much or 

 the Ifthmus, on both Seas, as is under the 

 Bad Air. Spaniards. The place is very fickly, though 

 it lies in a Country good enough $ but pof- 

 fibly 'tis only fo to thofe who come hither 

 from the dry pure Air of Lima and TruxiUio $ 

 and other parts of Pern 3 who grow indif- 

 pos'd prefently, and are fore d to cut off their 

 Hair. Yet is it very healthy in comparifon 

 of Portobel. - % 



About a League to the Weft of Panama is 

 another River, which is pretty large, and is 

 RkGrande called by fome RioGrande. It is (hole at the 

 entrance, and runs very fwift 3 and fo is not 

 fit for Shipping. On the Weft-banks of it are 

 Bftantions and Plantations of Sugar 4 but the 

 JShore from hence beginning to trend away to 

 the Southward again , I (hall here fix my 

 Weftern Boundary to the South-fea Coaft of 

 the Iflhmm, and go no further in the De- 

 fcription of it, 



