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to ask me; and iliall relate what we obferved concern- 
the Cuftoms and Difpofitions of thefe People, their man- 
ner of Living, and the Produd of their Country. 
Califorma is pretty well placed in our common Maps. 
The Heats in Summer are very great along the Sea- 
Coafts ; and iffeldom Rains: But the Air of the In- 
land Countries is more temperate, and the Heats not fo 
exceffive. It is the fame in Winter proportionally. In 
the Rainy Seafon there are Floods ; but when that is 
over, inftead of Rain, the Dew lalls in fucli plenty eve- 
ry Morning, that one would think it had Rained ; which 
renders the Earth very Fruitful. In the Months of 
April, May and there falls with the Dew a fort of 
Manna, whiclx congeals and hardens upon the Leaves of 
Reeds, from whence they gather it ; It is as fweet as Su- 
gar, tho’ not altogether lo White. 
The Climate muft needs be Healthy, if we may 
judge of it by our felves and thofe that were with us : 
For durint^ the five Years we were in this Kingdom, wc 
continued^ very well in Health, notwithftandhig the 
great Fatigues we underwent : And of the other Spani^ 
ards there died but two ; one of which was a Woman, 
who occafionM her own Death, by imprudently bathing 
her felf when fhe was near Lying-in. 
There arc in CaltformaQiS in the mod beautiful Coun- 
tries in the World) Large Plains, Pleafant Vallies, Ex- 
cellent Failures, at all time, for great and fmall Cattle ; 
fine Springs of running Water, Brooks and Rivers, with 
their Banks cover’d witli Willows, Reeds, and Wild 
Vines. In their Rivers they have plenty of Fifl'i, cfpe- 
cially Crayfifl^, which they keep in a kind of Confer-^ 
vatorics, till they have occafion for them : Three of 
thefe Confervatories I have feen, that were- very large 
and beautiful.- There is alfo plenty of Xicam-es,. of a 
better Talfe than thofe of Mexico.^ So that we may 
conclude California to be a ve>y fruitful Country. On 
