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Icn-ow there are fucli among all Conditions ; there have been 

 Tome of eminent Piety, whom the Church has admitted into 

 the Catalogue of Saints. Lima has produced within its Ter- 

 ritory S. Rofe of $. Mary of the third Order of S. Dominirt. 

 The Bifhopof that City Toribius, an European, fan&ify'd 

 himfelf there ; and they there honour the Blcflfed Francis 

 Solano, a Native of Paraguay. But after all, I differ very 

 much from the Opinion of the Author of the Life of the 

 Holy Toribius, who fays, that in all Likelihood Peru will 

 afford Heaven more Saints, than it has given Silver to the 

 Earth. Vertue feems to me to be more common among 

 the Laity, than among the Friers and the Clergy I make 

 no fcruple to fay fo, it would be a falfe Nicety to fpare 

 Men w^ho diflionour their Profcffion without Controul, 

 nnder Pretence that they are confecrated to God by fo- 

 lemn Vows. 



All Vices, fays Juvenal, are the more criminal, by as 

 much as he is thegreatei who is guilty of them* 



This is what I have to obje&, as a Traveler, who ob- 

 ferve what is done in the Countries where I happen to be, 

 and who deduce as a Confequence from the Behaviour of 

 fuch People, that they have little Religion in their Hearts, 

 notwithftanding their Gravity and outward Affectation. 

 Creolians or if we next examine the Character and Inclinations of 

 fom7nl*eiu Secular Creolians, we fliall find among them, as among 

 ' other Nations, a Mixture of Good and Evil. It is faid, 

 that the Inhabitants of la Puna, that is, the Mountain 

 Country of Peru, are well enough to deal with, and that 

 there are very worthy People among them, generous and 

 ready to do a good Turn, efpecially if it can feed their Va- 

 nity, and fliew the Greatnefs of their Souls, which they 

 there call Punto, that is, Point of Honour, which moft of 

 them value themfelves upon, as a Qualification that raifes 

 them above other Nations, and is a Proof of the Purity of the 

 Spanijh Blood, and of the Nobility all the Whites boaft o£ 

 The moft beggarly and meaneft of the Europeans become 

 Gentlemen as foon as they find themfelves tranfplanted 



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