1^6 A VOYAGE TO BookVIL 



of a dean, archdeacon, chantor, treafurer and redtor ; 

 five canons, four prebendaries, and four minor pre- 

 . bendaFies. The archbifhop and his chancellor confti- 

 tute the ecckfiaftical tribunal. 



Here is alfo a tribunal of Croifade, with a com- 

 nViflary, fubdelegate, and other officers : likewife a 

 court of inquifition fubordinate to that of Lima, and 

 an office for taking care of the eie6ts of perfons dy- 

 ing inteftate ; all eftabhflied on the fame foundation 

 with thofe in other cities already mentioned. 



The jurifdi(5lions belonging to the archbilhopric 

 of Plata, are the fourteen following : 



I. The city of Plata, and Imperial Town of 



Potofi. 



II. Tomina, VIII. Pilaya, and Pafpaya. 



III. Porco> IX. Cochabamba. - 



IV. Tarija. X. Chavantas. 



V. Lipes. XI. Paria. 



VI. Amparaes,. XIL Carangas. 



VII. Oruro. XIII. Cuacica. 



XIV. Atacama. 



I. The jurifdiciion of the city of Plata is of fucb 

 prodigious extent at to include the imperial town 

 of Potofi, which is even the continual refidence of the 

 Corregidor. There alfo is eftablifned the office of 

 revenue, which confifts of an accountant and trea- 

 furer, with clerks as moil convenient on account 

 of its vicinity to the mines, for taking account of 

 the filver produced by them. 



The famous mountain of Potofi, at the foot of 

 which on the fouth-fide flands the town of the fame 

 name, is known all over the commercial world, a^ 

 having been greatly enriched by the filvcr ic pro- 

 duces. The difcovery of thefe immenfe mines hap* 

 pened in the year 1545, by an accident feemingly 

 fortuitous. An Indian, by fome called Gualca, and 

 by others Hualpa, purfuing fome wild p;oats" up 

 tiiis mountain, and cjoming to a part very ftcep, he 



laid 



