22 CARACCAS. 



make vows of chastity and confinement, as 

 the others do, observe them much better, 

 and occupy themselves in the education of 

 young females. 



The Archbishop of Caraccas has for 

 suffragans, the Bishops of Merida and Gui- 

 ana : he had, previous to the rupture of the 

 treaty of Amiens, a revenue of about sixty 

 thousand dollars for his part of the tithes, 

 v^ithout counting w^hat accrued to him from 

 the sale of dispensations, indulgences, 

 bulls, &c., articles which raise his revenue 

 to more than ninety thousand. In general, 

 those bishops, canons, monks, and nuns, are 

 richly endowed, well fed, and do not pain- 

 fully tread the paths that conduct to Hea- 

 ven, amidst thorns and briars; it is, how- 

 ever, necessary to do them this justice, that 

 they have neither the brutality nor into- 

 lerance of their brethren in Spain ; nor is 



