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diredion. The Cordillera divides it ifito two parts ; 

 the higheft called Canas and the lowed Canches. 

 The latter by reafon of its temperate air yields all 

 kinds of grains and fruits ; whiiil the former affords 

 pallure for very numerous flocks and herds ; and in the 

 meadows between the eminences are fed no lefs than 

 twenty five or thirty rhoufand mules, brought thither 

 from Tucuma to pallure. Here is a very great fair 

 for thefc creatures, to which dealers rcfort from all 

 parts of the diocefs. In the part caUed Canas is the 

 iamous filv.er mine Condonoma. 



About forty leagues S. \V. from Cufco is the jupif- 

 didion of Aymaraes, which extends thirty farrher, and 

 like the former has different temperatures of air. The 

 lands abound in fugar, cattle, and grain ; and alfo in 

 mines of gold and lilver, which tornierly produced 

 large quantities of thofe valuable metals bur at pre- 

 fent few of them are wrought, the country being too 

 thinly inhabited. 



X. Something more than forty leagues from 

 Cufco, begins the jurifdiclion of Chumbi Viicas, 

 Vv'hich in fomc parts extends above thirty leagues, 

 has different temperatures of air, great quantities of 

 corn and fruits, and large herds of cattle , together 

 vvith-fomc mines of fdver and gold. 



X'. Tke jurildidion of Lampa begins thirty leagues 

 S. of Cufco, and is the principal of all the provinces 

 included under the name ot Callao. Its plains are in- 

 terrupted with fmali hills, but both abound in good 

 pafture ; and accordingly this province is particularly 

 remarkable for its quantity of cattle, with which it 

 carries on a very profitable trade but the air being 

 every where cold, the only fruits of the earrh arc 

 Papas and Qiiincas. Another very confiderable ad- 

 vantage are its hlvcv miines, being very rich, and 

 conilantly worked. 



XII. The jurifdidion of Carabaya begins Hxty 

 leagues S, E. of Cufco, and extends above fifiy leaG;ucs. 



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