ttetigh forthe prtrent itihould not quit coft, yec men ought to> 
go on couragioufiy with hopes of gaining at laft great profit 5 ic 
Jiaving been confirmed by Experience in ail the Mines of thofe Pro- 
vinces; A frcfiilnfl-ance v/hereof our Author alledges in the rich 
Mine of Chmk, whereafter the Miners had follow'd its Veins four- 
t y yeai s with very little profit, at length they met with that extra- 
ordinary riches, as is notorious to all people of that Kingdom. 
• 12. That if the lyleral be found clinging about ftones, and be 
found likewise in the hollows of them in grains like corns of Gun- 
powder fbeing that which the Spaniards call Plomo^ and is Silver 
unrefined,) though thefe grains be but few, and the reft of the me- 
tal have no Silver in it^ 'tis neverthelefs a fign of the richefs of the 
vein, when it meets withLmoremoifture ; as it fell out in that great 
Mme of St. Chrifiopher of the Lipes, which they call the Poor mans 
tYexfurc, If,as they dig forwards, they meet with more abundance 
of thofe grains de flomo^ 'cis a fign that the rich Ore is' very 
near. 
13. That Qr^^v^ in P^mis a Country ftored with plenty of 
the fineft GoUy as fine as the tineft Gold of Arabia^ it being of the 
finenefs of 23 Carats and 3 grains ; which though formerly ittath 
only been gather'd up in fragments , wafli'd off by rains, yet 'tis 
now wrought by following the veins of it underground : that the 
Country lipuane^ inhabited by favage l;?^i/^;;i,next unto Larecaja^ 
is by many eye-wi tneffes reported to be fo riqh inGold^that thence 
'tiscdiWdChacra^ that is^ the Farm of Gold 5 where, in the time of 
the rains, the boys often pick up gold in the ftreets in finall bits, 
likeapplc-kernels: T^^^ the bounds of C/?^/^»^/« are full of Veins 
of Gold, and that the River of St, Jiy4^, running at the bottom of 
the Province of the Chiques^ abounds in the fame metal, c^c. 
14. That in the circuit of the C^^r^^x there is fuch abundance 
of S//i/^r-mines, that theyalone, if there were no other in the 
world, were fufficient to fill it with riches ; in the middle of the 
jurifdiftion of which (lands Potoji^ furrounded almoft with abun- 
dance of rich Mines, whereof that famous one of the /«?§'4f5, called 
Forco^ was the firft, out of which the Spam^rds dug ai\y Silver ; 
That thofe very ancient Mines of ^W^r/«ware admired by all Mi- 
ners for their vaft depth , ftrange contrivance, and plenty of Ore, 
V. hich is fuch that it promifes continual employment for half the 
Indians of that Kingdom : That the Lake, near to %baco Nuj^ioycon- 
tains fomuch water,as would makea rtfnningRiver all the year long, 
with which ther^ are driven night and day an hundred Silver-mills, 
grinding 
