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the Pongo de Manceriche. In this country of Jaen de 

 Bracani-oros are feveral fmall villages : 



> I. San Jofeph* VI. Chinchipe. 



TI. Chito. VII. Chyrinos, 



IIL Sander. VIII. Pomaca. 



IV. Charape. IX. Tomependa. 



y. Pucara. > X. Chuchunga. 



The inhabitants of which are moftly Indians, with 

 fome Meftizos, but no great number of either. 



Though Jaen ftands on the bank of the river Chin- 

 chipe, and lb near the Maranon, yet the latter is not 

 navigable up to it, fo that thofe who are to embark on 

 it go by land from Jaen to Chuchunga, a fmall place 

 on another river of that name, and in 25 deg. 29 min, 

 lat. whence they fall down inro the Maranon. This 

 town, which may be accounted the port for Jaen, lies 

 four days journey from the city, which is the method 

 of calculating the diftances here •, the difficulties of 

 the road increafing them far beyond what they are in 

 reality, that not feldom that which on good ground 

 might be travelled in an hour or two, takes up a half 

 and fometimes a whole day. 



The climate of Jaen, and the fame may be faid of 

 the whole jurifdidlioh of this government, is like that 

 of Quixos, except that the rains are neither fo iafting 

 nor violent and, like that of Macas, it enjoys fome 

 interval of fummer ; when the heats, tempefts, and 

 all the inconveniences of winter, abate. The foil is 

 fruitful in all the grains and products agreeable to its 

 temperature. The country is full of wild trees, par- 

 ticularly the cacao, the fruit of which, befides the ex- 

 uberance of it on all the trees, is equal to that cul- 

 tivated in plantations but is of little ufe here, for 

 want of confumption : and the carriage of it to diftant 

 parts would be attended with fuch charges, as to pre- 

 judice 



