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cefs of Time ran into the lower Parts, fuch as the Chan- 

 nels of Rivers. 



Tho* we are not rightly informed of the Manner how- 

 great Movements or Alterations have been made in the 

 Earth, yet there is no Reafon to doubt of them, when we 

 obferve fome Bodies that are found out of their natural 

 Place, and particularly Shells. I have feen a Bank of them 

 in the Ifland of (hiiriquina, five or fix Foot high, parallel 

 with the Surface of the Sea, enclofed within an Eminence 

 % of Earth above 200 Foot high. Such Obfervations have 

 been long fince made in Europe, which have found the 

 Learned much Employment, without being able to affign 

 fufficient Reafons for it. 

 'Mon froVd- |t m ay alfo J be fuppofed with many of the Natives of the 

 kkOpmon. c ountr y 5 that the Gold is form'd in the Earth, even with- 

 out any Mineral Vein $ grounding, their Opinion on this 5 

 that after many Years Gold has been found in the Earth 

 that had been waflvd, as many Perfons report it of the 

 Wafhing- Places of Andacol, near Coquimbo. We fliall exa*- 

 mine this Opinion elfewhere. 



Be it as it will, it is certain that thofe Waflikig-Places 

 are very common in Chili ; that the Negligence of the Spa- 

 niards, and the Want of Labourers, leave immenfe Trea- 

 Cures in the Earth, which they might eafily enjoy ; bet as 

 they do not confine themfelves to fmall Advantages, they 

 only apply themfelves to the Mines, where a confiderable 

 Profit is to be found t If any fuch new Bifcovery is made, 

 they all run thither. Thus have we feen Copiapo and Lam- 

 panguy peopled all on a fudden, and fo many Workmen 

 drawn thither, that in two Years they had ere&ed fix Milk 

 at the latter of thofe Mines, 

 ~&m*pmg*y The Mountain of S.ChriJlopher of Lampanguy is near the 

 Mims, Cordillera Ridge of Mountains, in about 31 Degrees of 

 South Latitude, 80 Leagues from Valparaiso* In the Year 

 1-71-0 many Mines were difcover'd there of all Sorts of 

 Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron, Lead, Copper and Tin, whkb 

 overthrows the Arguments of die Author above-mention'd 3 

 who thinks that all the faid Metals cannot be found in the 



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