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nitrons air from whence, and the fmoaky colour of 

 the walls, the outfide of the buildings makes but an in- 

 different appearance. 



The churches and convents of this city, are the cathe- 

 dral, that of the Trinity in the fuburbs, built by bifhop 

 Don Gregory de MoUeda, who alfo in 1734 founded a 

 chapel of eale dedicated to St. Toribio. The orders 

 which have convents at Carthagena arethofe of St. 

 Francis, in the fuburbs, St. Dominic, St. Auguftin, La 

 Merced, alfo the Jacobines, and Recollets a college of 

 Jefuits and an hofpital of San Juan de Dios. The nun- 

 neries are thole of St. Clara and St. Terefa. All the 

 churches and convents are of a proper architedlure, and 

 fufficiently capacious ; but there appears fomething of 

 poverty in the ornaments, fome of them wanting what 

 even decency requires. The communities, particularly 

 that of St. Francis, are pretty numerous, and confift of 

 Euiopeans, white Creoles, and native Indians. 



Carthagena, together with its fuburbs, is equal to 

 a city of the third rank, in Europe. It is well peopled, 

 though moft of its inhabitants are defcended from the 

 Indian tribes. It is not the mofl: opulent in this coun- 

 tiT, for, befides the pillages it has fuffered, no mines are 

 worked here j fo that moft of the money feen in it is 

 fent from Santa Fe and Qiiito, to pay the falaries of 

 the governor, and other civil and military officers, and 

 the wages of the garrifon ; and even this makes no long 

 flay here. It is not however unfrequent to find perfons 

 who have acquired handfome fortunes by commerce, 

 whofe houfes are fplendidly furnifhed, and who live in 

 every refpedl agreeable to their wealth. The governor 

 refides in the city, which till 1739 was independent of 

 the military government. In civil affairs, an appeal lies 

 to the audience of Santa Fe ; and a viceroy of Sania 

 Fe being that year created, under the title of viceroy of 

 New Granada, the government of Carthagena became 

 fubjed to him alio in military affairs. The firil who 

 lilled this viceroyaltVj was lieutenant general Don Se- 



baftian 



