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of this province from north to fouth is betwixt twenty- 

 fix and twenty-eight leagues. Its temperature is in 

 general cold and very difagreeable, the frofts conti- 

 nuing one half of the year, and the other either fnow 

 or hail is continually falling. Accordingly the only 

 efculent produdions of the vegetable kingdom are the 

 Papas and Quinoas. The inhabitants have however 

 a very beneficial trade with their cattle, which abound 

 in this jurifdiclon, by faking and drying the fiefh^ 

 The traders v/ho carry it to the coaft exchange it fo^ 

 brandy and Vv'ine ; and thofe who go to Cochabamba, 

 carry alfo Papas, and Quinoas, which they barter for 

 meal. 



All the mountains in this province have their filver 

 mines, and formerly produced largely, but at prefent 

 are totally abandoned. 



The territories of the province of Chucuito, are on 

 one fide bounded by the lake of Titi-caca, the mag- 

 nitude of which merits fome account to be given of 

 it. This lake lies betvvTcn thefe provinces, compre- 

 hended under the general name of Calloa, and is of 

 all the known lakes of America, much the largeft* 

 Irs figure is fomewhat oval, inclining nearly from 

 N. W. to S. E. its circumference is about 80 leagues, 

 and the water, in fome parts 70 or 80 fathoms deep. 

 Ten or twelve large rivers, befides a great number of 

 fmaller ftreams empty themfelves into it. The water 

 of this lake, though neither bitter or brackifh, is 

 Xurbid, and has in its tafte fomething fo naufeous that 

 it cannot be drank. It abounds v/ith fifn, of two od- 

 pofite kinds ; one large and palatable, which the In- 

 dians call Suchis the other fmail, infipid and bony, 

 termxd long fince by the Spaniards Boyas. It has alfo 

 great number of geefe and other v/ild fowl, and the 

 fhores covered v/ith fiags and ruflies, the materials ot 

 which ^the bridges are made, and of which axv account 

 Avill be given in the fcquel. 



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