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refiding in its villages, who fcem to have an innate 

 inclination to weaving for befules the (luffs made at 

 the common manufadlories, fuch Indians as are not 

 Mitayos, or who are independent, make, on their 

 own account, a variety of goods, as cottons, carpets, 

 pavilions for beds, quilts in damaflc work, wholly of 

 cotton, either white, blue, or variegated with dif- 

 ferent colours ; but ail in great repute, both in the 

 province of Quito and other parts, where they are' 

 fold to great advantage. 



The method of fowing wheat and barley in. this 

 jurifdid:ion, is very different from that ufed in any of 

 the former for, inftead of fcattering the feeds, as is 

 commonly pradifed, they divide the groun^, after 

 it is plowed, into feveral parts by furrows, and 

 along the fides of them they make little holes a 

 foot diftant from one another, putting five or fix 

 corns into each. However tedious this may be, it 

 is abundantly made up to the farmer by the uncom- 

 mon increafe, which is ufuallv above an hundred, 

 fold. 



This jurifdidlion has a great number of fiuds of 

 horfes, and multitudes of black cattle, from whofe 

 milk large quantities of cheefe are made. This coun- 

 try is happily fituated for pafture, being every where 

 watered with an infinite number of rivulets. It haa 

 alfo large flocks of fheep, though thefe feem to be 

 neglected, in comparifon of the others. 



The village of Cayambe ftands in the middle of a 

 fpacious plain, at the end of v/hich is the foot of the 

 mountain Cayaroburo, one of the largeft mountains of 

 the Cordilleras in this part of the country,, being equal 

 in height to that of Chimborazo, and its fummits co- 

 vered with fnow and ice. Its altitude is fo much 

 greater than the reft between it and Quito, that it 

 may be plainly feen from that city. The vicinity of 

 this mountain renders the whole plain of Cayambe 

 cold, which is iacreafed by the violence and continu- 

 ' ance 



