t6o A VOYAGE TO Book VIII. 



commerce, and other neceflary particulars, I lhall 

 mention in the following account of the kingdom of 

 Chili. 



CHAP. VIII. 



Account of that part of CniJ a within the jurif- 

 di^ion of the audience of Santiago. 



THE kingdom of Chili extends from the fron- 

 tiers of Peru to the ftreights of Magellan, 

 the diftance being five hundred and thirty leagues. 

 Thefe two kingdoms, as I have mentioned in ano- 

 ther place, are feparated by the defart of AtacamOj 

 which extends eighty leagues between the province 

 of the fame name, being the laft of Peru, and the 

 valley of Copoyapu, now corruptly called Copiapo, 

 the firft in Chili, and in every particular refcmbles 

 the dcfarr of Sedlura. Eaftward, fome parts of this 

 kingdom terminates on the frontiers of Paraguay, 

 though fome uninhabited defarts intervene 5 and others 

 border on the government of Buenos Ayres. Though 

 between thefe are the Pampas or extenfive and level 

 plains. Its weftern boundary is the fouth-fea, extend^ 

 ing from 27 degrees nearly, the latitude of Copiapo, 

 ^^53^ 3o'» But to confine ourlelves to the true ex- 

 tent of this kingdom, as inhabited by the Spaniards, 

 it begins at Copiapo, and terminates at the large 

 ifland of Chiloe, the ibuthern extremity of which is in 

 34^ of S. latitude ; and its extent from W. to E. is the 

 diftance between the Cordillera, which is here of a 

 ftupendous height, and the coaft of the fouth-fea \ 

 that is, about thirty leagues. 



Part of the country which at prefent compofes 

 the kingdom of Chili, was fubjetfted to the empire of 

 the Yncas by Yupanqui, the tenth emperor ; who, 

 incited by the inchanting account given of thele 



provinces. 



