the South-Sea. 



every where fordable, fupplying the Town with Water, 

 and freflitiing the adjacent Meadows, after having made its 

 Efcape from among the Mountains, where in its Paffoge 

 it fertilizes feveral fine Vales, whofe Soil refufes no Sort of 

 Tillage. 



Peter Baldivia y who made Choice of this curious Situ-, 

 ation, in the Year 1544, to build a Town on, which 

 might ferve for a Retreat in the PafTage from Chili to Peru, 

 ravifii'd with the Delicioufnefs of the Climate, calPd it 

 La Serena, the Name of the Place of his Birth, to which 

 it had more Right than any other Place in the World, the 

 Name fignifying the Serene; and, in lhort, there is con- 

 tinually a ferene and pleafant Sky* That Country feems 

 to have retain'd the Delights of the Golden Age : The 

 Winters are there warm, and the fliarp North Winds never 

 blow there : The Heat of the Summer is always temper'd 

 by refrefhing Winds, which come to moderate the Heat 

 about Noon ; fo that all the Year is no other than a hap- 

 py Union of Spring and Autumn, wfaich feem to join Handd 



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Plate XIX. Page 131. dtferibed in Englifh. 

 Vui* de La Serena, A Profpeft of LA SERENA. 

 The Plan of the Town of LA SERENA, on the Coaft of Chili, in 29 

 Degrees, 55 Minutes of South Latitude, at the Bottom of the Vale of 

 Coquimbo, a Quarter of a League from the Bay of the fame Name, June 



A. A Trench which fupplies all the F. The Jefuites. 

 Town with Water. G. The Francifcans. 



B. The Square. H. S. Auguftin. 



C. The Parijh Church. - J. S Agnes. 



D. The Council Houfe. L. The Mercenarians. 



E. S. Dominick. 



R. de Coqaimbo qui ne remplit fon lit quen ete, The River of Coquir^ 

 bo, whith is full of Water only in Summer. 



Partie de la Vallee de Coquimbo, Part of the Vale of Coquimbo. 

 Ruines de S te Lucie, The Ruins of S. Lucy. 

 Forges de Cuivre, Copper Works. 



TerraHe naturelment alignee & de niveau, A Terrafs n/unrally formed in $ 

 Line, and level. 



Plaine continuee jufques a la mer, A Plain extending to the Sm> 

 Echclle de 500 Toifes, A Scale of 500 Fathoms, 



