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nimals and Plants to be found therej the Temperature of 
the Air, the Matmers of the Inhabitants,their number^thcir 
wealth, and the commodities they trade in. 
He obfcrves, that about the Upper part of the ffrert^- 
fugaif^tow^tds Parana and the Province of TaraguHs, there 
are rich Gold-mines, difcover'd by Jefuites^^of which the 
Gold is much finer than that of Perou, 
In the fame Province grows an Herb Caird Herb of Para^ 
^2^^/>,ordinarily given to the Mine-men afflifted by the Sul- 
phureous and other damps of the Mines, who are recover'd 
by drinking the decodtionthereof, which makes them vo- 
mit up with gr^t eafe whatever troubles their ftomack; 
In ihQVfSiy ivomBuenos-ayres ioPercu^ about S. ']a^dtl 
Ejiro^ as he met with Tigers vety fierce, fo he found the Ly« 
ons very gentle. About the lame place he found thofe Ani» 
mals calV dt Guamcofy as big a^ Horfes, with long neck$,lic- 
tle heads, and fhoft tay Is j having in their ftomack the Be* 
Speakiflg of the aboddding in tha^^^ Country, he 
relateth a remarkable thing, wliich he faith he hath feeti, 
vi^. That, when that Bird is hatching her Eggs,-^ 4od 
they are iready to hatch^fhe breaks four of them and car- 
ries them to the four cortiifer^ of the place (lie is hatching 
in: which Eggs thus broken cojning to corrupt^there is in a 
little time bred out of them a great quantity of worms, 
with which the young ones, when hatched, arefeduntill 
they are able to go and feek for their food elfewhere^ 
Errata in this Trad:. 
P. $10%. I, Z. r. Maych for Fe^r. p. 5n5. 1. 7. r. Phdnmena. 
LONDON, 
Prwted fifr ]ohn Marty n, Printer to the Royal Smety^ 
