340 A VOYAGE TO Book VI. 



This jnrifdidiion being fo large, and containing many 

 towns and villages, is divided into feveral depart- 

 ments, over each of which the principal governor 

 nominates a deputy for the adminiftration of juftice, 

 and introduces them to the audience to which they 

 belong, v/here his nomination is confirmed ; a cir- 

 cumftance neceffary to procure them ail the weight 

 and fecurity in the feveral departments which are con- 

 ferred on them. Thofe which form the government 

 of Popayan are, 



I. Santiago di Cali. VH. Almaguer. 



IJ. Santa Fe de Antioquia. VIII. Caloto. 



III. Las Quatro Ciudades. IX. San Juan de Pafto. 



IV. Tiriiana. X. El Rapofo. 

 V. Guadalajara de Buga. XL Barbacoas. 



VI. S. Sebaftian de la Plata. 



In each of thefe departments, befides the chief 

 town, are feveral others very large and well peopled ; 

 and great numbers of feats and farm-houfes, where^ 

 the number of people employed gives them the ap- 

 pearance of villages rather than private dwellings. 



Of the above-mentioned departments, thofe to- 

 wards the north and eaft of the city of Popayan, 

 as Santa Fe de Antioquia, Las quatro Ciudades,. 

 Timana, and S. Sebailian de la Plata, belons: to the 

 audience and province of Santa Fe j the others ly- 

 ing nearer to Qiiito belong to its province and 

 thofe of San Juan de Pafto, and Barbacoas, are with- 

 in its diocefer 



The departments of Cali and Buga, lying betwixt 

 the governments of Popayan and Choco, thrive, as 

 being the channel of the commerce Vv'hich is carried 

 on continually betwixt thofe two governments:' 

 whereas it is ocherwife with that of Almaguer, from 

 the fmalinefs of its jurifdidlion, and the little traffi^Io 

 there. That of Caloto, as its extent is confiderable,. 



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