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the great difficulty of fupporting it, without detri- 

 ment either to the public or the audiences, the fup- 

 preffion of which had been fo detrimental to the in- 

 l^abitants^ being overcome, the dignity of viceroyaky- 

 was again ere6led in the year 1739, Don Sebaftian de 

 Ellaba, lieutenant-general^ being appointed the firlt" 

 viceroy,, and arnved in rhe beginning of the year 

 1 740 to take poflefiion of his government *, which- 

 included the whole kingdom of Terra Firma and the 

 province of Quito; 



This province is bounded on the north by that of 

 Santa Fe de Bogota, and includes part of the govern- 

 ment of Papayan on the fouth it is limited by the 

 governments of Peru and Chachapoyas ; eaftward it 

 Extends over the v/hole government of Mayn^s, and 

 the river of the Amazons, to the meridian of demar- 

 cation, or that w^hich divides the dominions of Spairi^ 

 and Portugal. Its weftern boundary is the fea, from- 

 the coaft of Machal-a, in the gulf of Puna^ to the coafl: 

 of the government of Atacames- and the jurifdiftioa 

 of Barbacoas, in the bay of Gorgona. Its greatefl: 

 ireadth from north to- fouth is about 200 leagues ^ 

 and its length, from eaft to v/eft, the whok extent 

 from Cape de Santa Elena, in the fouth-fea, to the 

 meridian above-ment^ioned ; which, by the mofl accu- 

 rate computation, is 600 leagues. But a very greac 

 part of thefe vaft dominions are, it muft be owned^, 

 cither inhabited by nations of favage Indians, or have 

 not hitherto been thoroughly peopled by the Spaniardsp. 

 if indeed thq'" have been fufficiently known. All- 

 the parts that can- properly be faid to be peopled, and 

 actually fubje6l to the Spanifli government, are thofe 

 intercepted by tht two Cordilleras of the Andes, which 5. 

 in comparifon to the extent of the country, may be 

 termed a ftreet or lane, extending from the jiurifdidion* 

 of the town of St. Miguel de Ibarra to that of Loga ; 

 the country from hence to the government of Popayan, 

 and alfo that comprehended between the weftern Cor- 

 1 dillera 



