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bought by the Count de la Moncloa, Viceroy of Peru, to 

 prefent it to the King of Spain j the other fell into the Hands 

 oi Don John de Mar in 171 o 7 whilft he was Corregidor y or 

 chief Magifcite of Arica. This is ftiaped like an Ox's 

 Heart in little, and weighs 45 Marks, that is 360 Ounces, 

 of three different Degrees of Finenefs ; to the befl: of my 

 Remembrance of 11, 18, and 21 Carats, which is very 

 remarkable in the fame natural Mafs. 

 Land of All the Places above-mention'd where there are Mines, 

 Mnes cold are f G co id and barren, that the Inhabitants of them are 

 and barren. obliged t0 f eek their p rov ifions from the Coaft. The Reafon 

 of that Barrennefs is plain, if we confider the bad Exhala- 

 tions which continually iffue from the Mines, as has been 

 obferv'd before, they certainly containing Salts and Sulphurs 

 contrary to the Vegetation of Plants. 

 Others in If thofe Places are inhabited, it is only in regard to their 

 temperatePU- g re at Wealth, which draw thither all the Neceffaries of 

 as ' Life j however, there is no Want of Mines towards the 



Coaft, in more temperate Places, as appears by that new- 

 ly difcover'd at Iquique : It is even pretended, that there 

 are Mines in all the Mountains about Arica, but that they 

 are not rich enough to be at the Expence of working them. 

 Sah Mnes ^ n ^ ame Mountains there is an infinite Number of 

 &c. Mines of Salt, and fomeof the fine Lime-ftone for making 



of Plaifter of Paris ; jisalfo certain Spungey Stones, ferving 

 to filtrate or ftrain Water, and a Sort of tranfparent Ala- 

 bafter, ufed in fome Places inftead of Glafs for Windows. 

 In other refpe&s they are all barren 5 no Green is to be 

 Plants* feen there but what is down in the Vales. In that of Arica 

 there is Jalop, the Root whereof is of great Ufe in Phyfick j 

 there is alfo China Root and Mechoacan, which the Inhabi- 

 tants, if I miftake not, call Jonqm. There is alfo the 

 Molle Tree, fpoken of in the Article of 'Valparaiso ; the 

 Tar a Tree, fomewhat refembling the Acacia ; the Fruit 

 of it, which is a Cod like the French Beans, ferves to make 

 Wricing-Ink, as has been (aid of the Algarroba, or Carob. 

 On the Mountains near ha Paz. there is a Sort of Mofs, 



call'd 



