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of vifiting the inland pares of thefe countries ; and 

 the accoants wc received of them at Lima, were mu 

 to be depended apon, with that confidence neceflary 

 to their being inferted here •, for confidering the vait 

 diftance between the capkat and fome provinces, ic 

 is no wonder they are but Iktle known at Lima. The 

 reader will therefore indulge me in giving a fuperfi- 

 cial account of fome; for according to the method 

 in v/hich I began to write the hiilory, we fhall in- 

 fert fuch particulars only as ai^e authentic ; it being 

 undoubtedly more advantageous to fay a little with 

 truth, than to engage in- prolix and uncertain parti- 

 culars. 



In order the better to defcribe the countries go- 

 verned by the vice-roy of Peru, without departing 

 from the plan hithei^to obferved, I lliall divide the 

 v;hole jurifdi6lion of its government, into thofe audi- 

 ences of which it confifts ; thefe into the diocelTes 

 they contain ; and the diocelTes into jurifdidions under 

 a Corregidor. 



The vice-royalty of Peru in South America, ex- 

 tends over thofe vail countries, included in the ju- 

 rifdidions of the audience of Lima, Los Charcas, 

 and Chili ; and in thefe are comprehended the go-» 

 vernments of Santa Cruz de la Sierra ; Paraguay, 

 Tucuman', and Buenos Ayres. Though thefe three 

 provinces and the kingdom of Chili have particu- 

 lar governors invefted with all the authority agree- 

 able to fuch a charader ; and as fuch are abfolute in 

 political, civil, and military affairs, yet, in fome 

 cafes, are fubordinate to the vice-roy ; for inftance, 

 on th^ death of any inferior governor, the vacancy 

 is fupplied by him. Before the eredion of the viee- 

 royaky of the new kingdom of Granada in 173-9, 

 that of Peru, as we have already obferved, extend- 

 ed to the countries of the two audiences of Terra 

 Firma and Qiiito ; but thofe being then feparated 

 froni it, the bounds of it on the north were the ju- 

 4. rifdidion 



