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induftry of its inhabitants have improved it, by canals 

 cut from the river, abounds in feveral kinds of vege- 

 tables and fruits fome of the fame kind with thofe 

 known in Europe, and others of the Creole kind, 

 being European fruits planted there, but which 

 have undergone confiderable alterations from the 

 climate. About ten leagues from it are efpaliers of 

 vines, from the grapes of which they make wine, 

 but neither fo good, nor in fuch plenty as in other 

 parts of Peru. Many of the poor people here em- 

 ploy themfelves in works of cotton, as embroidered 

 handkerchiefs, quilts, mantelets, and the like. 



On the 28 th we left Lambayeque, and having 

 paiTed thro' the tov/n of Monfefu, about four or five 

 leagues diftant from it, we halted near the fea coaft, 

 at a place called Las Lagunas, or the Fens ; thefe con- 

 taining freHi water left in them by the overflowings 

 of the River Sana. On the 29th we forded the river 

 Xequetepeque, leaving the town of that name at the 

 diftance of about a quarter of a league, and in the 

 evening arrived at the town of St. Pedro, tv/enty 

 leagues from Lambayeque, and the laft place in its 

 jurildiftion. By obfervation we found its latitude to 

 be f 25' 49 ^'S. 



St. Pedro confifts of about 130 baxaraque houfes, 

 and is inhabited by 120 Indian families, 30 of Whites 

 and Meftizos, and i2 of Mulattoes. Here is a con- 

 vent of Auguilines, tho' it feldom confifts of above 

 three perfons, the prior, the prieil of the town, and 

 his curate.. Its river is called Facafmayo, and all 

 its territories produce grain and fruits in abundance. 

 A great part of the road from Lambayeque to Sr. 

 Pedro, lies along the fliore, not indeed at an equal, 

 but never at a great diftance from it. 



On the 30th of November we paffed through the 

 town of Payjan, which is the firft in the jurifdiclion 

 of Truxillo, and on the firft of December we reach- 

 ed nhat of Chocope, 13 or 14 leagues diftant from 



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