the South Sea. IJ£ 



Mountain calFd Cerro Verde^ or Green Hill, which is high 

 and fliaped like a Sugar-loaf,- fo that it may ferve for 

 a Land-Mark to the Port. There is an infinite Number 

 of others, which are negle&ed for want of Sale. It is af- 

 firm'd, that there are alfo Mines of Iron and of Quick- 

 filver. 



I muft not here omit fome Particulars of the Country, 

 which I was told by the Guardian of the Franciscans at Co- 

 quimbb. The firft of them, That ten Leagues to the South- 

 ward of that Town there is a blackifh Stone, from which 

 flows a Spring only once a Month, at an Opening like un- Strang- 

 to that humane Part, whofe regular Flowing it imitates,and s f Tln £r 

 that Water leaves a white Track on the Stone. 



The fecond is near that they call La Hazienda de la Mar- 

 quefa, or the Marchionefs's Eftate, fix Leagues Eaft from 

 the Town : There is a gray Stone of the Colour of Lead RemarfoWfe 

 Ore, as fmooth as a Table, on which there is exa&ly drawn StQm * 

 a Buckler and a Head-Piece, both red, the Colour finking 

 deep into the Stone, which has been purpofely broken, in 

 fome Places, to fee it. 



The third, that in aVale there is a fmall Plain, on which Singula 

 if a Man falls afleep, when he awakes he finds himfelf^^ 

 fwollen, which does not happen fome few Paces from 

 thence. 



The Port of Coquimbo being no Place of Trade for Eu- 

 ropean Commodities, of which not above the Value of 1 2 

 or 15000 Pieces of Eight can be fold in a Year, the French 

 Ships refort thither only for frefli Provifions, Wine m&Prm@m* 

 Brandy. The Beef is there fomewhat better than at VaU 

 paraifo, and much about the fame Value of eight or ten 

 Pieces of Eight a Beaft. There are Partridges, but they 

 are infipid : On the other hand, the Turtle Doves are very 

 delicious; there are abundance of Ducks in a little Pool 

 near the Port. The Fifhery is plentiful enough in the Bay, 

 yielding abundance of Mullets, Pezereyes, Soles, and a 

 Sort of Fifh without Bones, very delicious, call'd Teffon^ 

 and peculiar to that Coaft 5 but there is no good carting 



