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flruck with the concurrence of the burfting of this 

 volcano, and the invafion of a foreign army, that the 

 fpirit, which univerfally began to fhew itfelf in the 

 preparatives every where made for a vigorous refit 

 tance, entirely left them, and the whole province ea- 

 fiiy conquered, ail its caciques fubmitting to the 

 king of Spain. The large plain in which this aflien- 

 to ftands, is full of fragments of rocks, ejeded at 

 that fuppofed ominous eruption, and fome of them 

 to the dittance of five leagues from its roots. In the 

 year 1743, while we were on the coaft of Chili, a fe- 

 cond eruption happened, the particular^ of which we 

 fhali relate in another place. 



The temperature of the air is very different in 

 the feveral villages of this jurifdidion •, being hot in 

 thofe lying in the vallics *, temperate in thofe fituat- 

 ed on the plains ; v/hilft the air in thofe bordering on 

 the mountains, like that of the affiento, is cold, and 

 fometimes to an excefTive degree. The villages are in 

 general larger, and more populous, than thofe of the 

 other jurifdi6lions in the fame province. Their inha- 

 bitants are Indians, Meftizos, and a few Spaniards, 



Besides the parifh church, which is ferved by two 

 priefls, one for the Spaniards and the other for the In- 

 dians, this afTiento has convents of Francifcans, Au- 

 guftines, Dominicans, the Fathers of Mercy, and a col- 

 lege of Jefuits. I'he churches of thefe rehgious are 

 well built, decently ornamented, and kept very neat. 

 I'he inhabitants, by the neareft computation, amount 

 to between ten and twelve thoufand, chiefly Spaniards 

 and Mestizos. Among the former are feveral families 

 of eminent rank and eafy circum fiances, and of fuch 

 virtues and accomplifhments as add a luflre to their 

 happy fituation. The Indians, as at Qtiito, live in a' 

 feparate quarter adjoining to the country. 



In this alTiento all kinds of trades and mechanic arts 

 are carried on; and, as in all the other parts of this 

 jorifdiclion, has a confiderable number of manufado- 



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