Ch.XIV. south AMERICA. i69 



But all thefe places are fmall, and built v/ithout either 

 order or fymmetry. The governor, notwithflanding 

 Santiago was the firft, refides at Saita ; and even the 

 bifhop v/ith his chapter at Cordova, which is the 

 largeft. The others have their refpedive Corregidors, 

 under whom alfo are the Indian villages within the 

 dependencies of their proper cities. But of thefe there 

 is no great number, the principal part of the country 

 not being inhabitable, either from a want of water, or 

 from their being covered with impenetrable foreils. 

 This want of inhabitants is alfo greatly owing to the 

 cruelties and ravages of the favage Indians, in their 

 frequent incurfions. 



epifcopal church of Tucuman, which, as v/e 

 have already obferved, is in Cordova, w^as in the year 

 1570 erefted into a cathedral, and its chapter now 

 confifts of the bifliop, dean, archdeacon, chantor, rec- 

 tor and treafurer, who is ele£led ; but has neither 

 canons nor prebendaries. 



Those parts of the country which are watered by 

 the rivers, are fo remarkably fertile in grain and fruits, 

 that they produce fufficient for the common confump- 

 tion of the inhabitants. The woods abound in wild 

 honey and wax, whiKt the hot parts produce fugar and 

 cotton ; the laft is manufa6lured here, and with the 

 woollen (tuffs alfo wove by the inhabitants, form an 

 advantageous branch of trade. But its great article 

 confifts in the mules bred in the luxuriant paftures of 

 its valleys. Inconceivable droves of thefe creatures 

 arefenttoall parts of Peru, the Tucuman mules be- 

 ing fam.ous over thefe countries, far exceeding all 

 others in ftrength and docility. 



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