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2nd accordingly, taking her under my ConfiJertitiow, 
I had ail the Succefs I could wiih for, which perhaps 
may not be unacceptable to the Curious, if I pubhfh in 
one of the next Tranra<iJions. 
XII > Accmnt of Bool^r. 
I. Voyages and Difcoveries in South America : The Tirjl 
up the River of Amazons r^? Quito Peru, and lack 
again to Brazil, performed at the Command of the King 
of Spain, hy Chriftopher D'Acugna. The Second, up 
the River of Plate, and thence hy Land to the Mines of 
Potofi, hy M, Acarete. The Thirds from Cayenne in- 
to Guiana, in fearch of the Lake of Parima, reputed 
the richefl Place in the World, hy M. Grillet, and Be- 
chamel. Done into Englifh from the Originals^ heing 
the only Accounts of thofe Parts hitherto extant, with 
yMaps, London, Printed for Sam. Buckly, at the 
Dolphin Fket Street. 
FAther D'Acugnay begins with a (hort Account of 
fome remarkable Attempts that had been made un- 
fuccesfully at feverai time&by the Spaniards, to difcover 
the River of Amazons ; and then proceds to the perfed 
Difcovery of it, by Don Pedro de Texeira, who in the 
Year 1637. fet out from Fara in Brazil, with 70 Por- 
tugefe, and 1200 Indians in 47 Canoo?, and palling up 
the River with much diiEculty, got to Quito in Peru: 
The 
