The Jefuites Settlement 



The Jefuites hy/c not been able to extend their Million 

 that way, for want of Fathers otherwife they would re- 

 ceive an Augmentation of more than 60000 Families, and 

 3 00 Leagues of Ground. 



To relume the Thread of our Account, and the Situa- 

 tion of the Jefuites Country, it is., as above obferv'd, 200 

 Leagues South of the Paulijlf, 200 North of the Province of 

 Buenos Ayres, 180 from that of Tucuman, and 100 from 

 Paraguay. Thefe 3 Provinces are feparated from the 

 Kingdoms of Chili and Peru by the Chain of Mountains 

 calFd La Cordillera^ and were of themfelves a Kingdom 

 before the Conqueft of the Indies. 



The Country of the Million is fruitful, being water'd 

 with a great number of Rivers, which form Iflands in many 

 Places. They have Plenty of Timber and Fruit-trees, 

 excellent Pulfe, Bread-Corn, Flax, Indigo, Hemp, Cot- 

 ton, Sugar, Piemento, Hypecacuana^ Galapa, Macheca- 

 cuana, a Root they call iLautrabanda^ and many other 

 Simples of great Ufe in Pharmacy, particularly the Herb 

 Paraguay. Their Savanna's^ or Meadow-Lands, are full 

 of Horfes, Mules, Cows, Bulls, and Flocks of Sheep : 

 And more than all thefe, their Gold and Silver Mines are 

 very confiderable. 'Tis true, the good Fathers will not 

 own it,- but there are too many Proofs of it, to leave any 

 room for Doubt. 



The People are good-natured and quiet, handy and 

 laborious; and are brought up to all forts of Trades. 

 They are at prefent divided into 42 Parilhes, from 1 to 10 

 Leagues apart, lying along the River of Paraguay ; and in 

 every Pariih there is a Jefuite, who has the Supreme Com- 

 mand, and is obey'd with the exadeft Regard and Awe. 

 He punifhes theleaft Fault, if he pleafes, with the utmoft 

 Severity. 



The ordinary Chaftifement there, is a certain number 

 of Laflies with a Whip, in proportion to the nature of the 

 Crime. The Caciques and others, who are in the beft 

 Potts of the Government, whether Civil or Military, are 



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