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to reign there together, in order to produce at once both 

 Flowers and Fruits ; to that we may, with much more 

 , Truth, fay of it what formerly Virgil laid of a certain Pro- 

 vince in Italy, Georg. 1. 2. 



Hie ver ajjiduum, atque alknis menfibus aflas^ 

 Bis gravida pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbos : 

 At rapid a Tigres abfunt, & feva Leomm 

 Semina. 



Thus Englffid by Mr. Dryden. 



— - Perpetual Spring our Climate fees, 

 Twice breed the Cattle, and twice bear the Trees^ 

 And Summer Suns recede by flow Degrees^ 

 Our Land is from the Dread of Tygers freed, 

 Nor nourifhes the Lyon's angry Seed. 



No mU This laft Commendation of being free from wild Beafts 

 Beafis, nor and venomous Creatures, is due, as the Inhabitants fay, to* 

 aZZu. a11 rhe Kin g dom of Chili, where they lie at allSeafons in the 

 open Air, without fearing any Poifon* Neverthelefs, what- 

 foever Father 0<valle may fay of it, I have feen Toads at 

 La Conception, Snakes and monftrous Spiders at Valpa- 

 raiso y and, laftly, white Scorpions at Coquimbo. It is likely, 

 all thole Creatures are of a different Nature from ours in 

 Europe ; for there is no Infhmce that ever any body was 

 hurt by them. 



plan of the The Plan of the Town is anfwerable enough to the Ad- 

 Tmih vantages of Nature $ the Streets are all exaftly ftrait in a 

 Line from one End to the other, like Santiago y anfwering 

 to the four Cardinal Points of the Horizon, from Eaft to 

 Weft, and from North to South. The Quarters or Squares 

 they form, are alfo of the fame Dimenfions, with each % 

 Rivulet running through it y but the fmall Number of In- 

 habitants, the Foulnefs of the Streets which are not pav'd, 

 the Meannefc of the, Houfes made of Mud Walls, and 



;y ; : . ; v v ~ \* ~ Thatdi'd; 



