the South Se Us 141. 



x Fiflierman's Cottage , at the Bottom of the N. E. 

 Creek.. The Town is 14 Leagues diftant Eaftward, the 

 fhorteft Way by the Mountains, and 20 Leagues the com-- 

 mon Road, which keeps the Courfe of the River 5 the 

 Mouth whereof is five Leagues to the Southward of La 

 Calderdy as has been faid. 



All the Shore of La Caldera is cover'd with Shells, 

 efpecially that Sort they call Locos *r fo that Dampier is in * &e PUtt 

 the wrong to fay. that there is no Shell-Filh all along that *; x * . 

 €oaft. Dampier 



Copapois an open Town, the Houfcs whereof do not 4cci»nt of- 

 fend in any Order, but fcattering up and down. The the Borough 

 Gold Mines that have been difcover'd there within fix Years ^ Copiapo ' 

 paft, have drawn fome few Peopk thither ; fo that at pre- 

 sent there may be above poo Souls; This Increafe of the 

 Number of Spaniards has occafion'd an Order for dividing 

 the Lands, by which they take from the poor Indians not 

 only their Lands, but their Horfes alfo, which the Cone- 

 gidor, or chief Magiftrate, fells to the new Comers for 

 the King's, or rather for his Officers Advantage, under Co- 

 lour of making more eafy the Settlements of thofe wh© 

 improve the Mines. There are Mines dire&ly above the Gold Mnes 

 Town, and others at two or three Leagues Diftance, whence $ Copwpo, 

 they bring the Ore on Mules to the Mills, which are within 

 the Town. In the Year 171 3 , there were fix of thofe they 

 call Trapiches, and they were making a feventh of that 

 Sort which they call Ingenio Real, the Royal Engine, with 

 Hammers, or Pounders, of which we lhall fpeak elfe- 

 where, which can bruife or grind 12 times as much as the 

 TrapicheSyth&t is, fix Caxones, or Chefts, a Day, each Cheft 

 there yielding 12 Ounces, more or lefsj it muft yield two. 

 to pay the-Goft; the Ounce of Gold is there fold for 12 

 or 13 Pieces of Eight caft* 



Befides the Gold Mines, there are about Copiapo many Mwsoj *H 

 Miaes of Iron, Brafs, Tin, and Lead, which they do Sorts> 

 not think fit to work : There is alfo much Load-fame, 

 zti&Lap 'n Lazuli, which the People of the Country do not* 



know. 



