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in fpecie, the vahie of thirty thoufand in clothes for the 

 foldiers, and 10,000 in fpecie, which is paid to the 

 king's officers at Santiago, in order to purchafe flour, 

 charqui, gralTa, and other necefTaries for the garrifon at 

 Valdivia. Thefe remittances are conveyed in fhips 

 which fail from Valparaifo. 



I. The jurifdidion of Santiago we have already ob- 

 ferved to be limited to its boundaries. 



II. Rancagua is a jurifdi^lion in the country, and 

 owes its name from the inhabitants living in fingle 

 houfes, without the appearance of a village, every 

 family in their lonely cottage, four, fix, or more 

 leagues from each other. It is not, however, without 

 a kind of capital, confifting of about fifty houfes, 

 and between fifty and fixty families, moft of them 

 Meftizos, though their cafts is not at all perceivable by 

 their complexion. The whole jurifdidion may con- 

 tain about a thoufand families, Spaniards, Meftizos, 

 and Indians. 



IIL CoLCHAGUA refembles in every clrcumftance 

 the former, except its being better peopled ; its inha- 

 bitants according to the belt computations, amounting 

 to fifteen hundred families. 



IV. Chilan is afmall place, but has the title of city, 

 the number of families, by ?n accurate calculation, not 

 exceeding two or three hundred, and having few Spa- 

 niards among them. 



V. Aconcagua h a very fmall place at the foot of 

 the mountains, but the country is interfperfed with a 

 great number of fingle houfes. The valley of the 

 fame name is fo delightful, that a town called Phelipe 

 le Real, was built in it in 1741. 



VI. Meliptlla made no better figure than the fore- 

 going jurifdiftions, till the year 1742, when a town 

 was erected in it by the name of St. Jofeph de Lon^ 

 gronno. 



V[i. Quillota. The town of this name does not 



contain 



