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SPANISH AMERICA;
OR A
DESCRIPTIVE, HISTORICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL
ACCOUNT
OF
THE DOMINIONS OF SPAIN
IN THE
Western Hemisphere,
CONTINENTAL AND INSULAR;

ILLUSTRATED BY
A MAP OF SPANISH NORTH AMERICA, AND THE WEST-INDIA ISLANDS;
A MAP OF SPANISH SOUTH AMERICA,
AND AN ENGRAVING, REPRESENTING THE COMPARATIVE ALTITUDES
OF THE MOUNTAINS IN THOSE REGIONS.

By R. H. BONNYCASTLE,
CAPTAIN IN THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

"Such of late

Columbus found the American, so girt

With feathered cincture, naked else and wild

Among the trees, on iles and woody shores—

----In spirit perhaps he also saw

Rich Mexico the seat of Montezume,

And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat

Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd

Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons

Call El Dorado."— Paradise Lost.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1818.

Printed by A. Strahan,
New-Street-Square, London.

CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.

PART II.

SOUTH AMERICAN DOMINIONS.

(CONTINUED.)

[Captain Generalship of Caraccas], Boundaries and ExtentPage 1
[Political and Territorial Divisions, Government]2
[Discovery, History]2
[Capital]4
[Description of the Features, &c. of the Country]8
[Province of New Andalusia]18
—— [New Barcelona]18
[Features, Climate, &c.]25
[Province of Venezuela and Coro]43
—— [Maracaybo]58
—— [Varinas]65
—— [Spanish Guiana]69
[Government of the Island of Margarita]73
[Viceroyalty of Peru]75
[Extent and Boundaries]75
[Political and Territorial Divisions, Government, &c.]76
[Discovery, History, &c.]83
[Intendancy of Truxillo]120
—— [Tarma]126
—— [Lima]130
—— [Guancavelica]134
[Intendancy of Guamanga]138
—— [Cuzco]140
—— [Arequipa]147
[Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres or La Plata], Boundaries and Extent155
[Political and Territorial Divisions, Government, History, Discovery, &c.]156
[Features, Climate, &c.]161
[Commerce and Resources]167
[Government of Los Charcas or Potosi]171
—— [Paraguay]195
[History, Discovery, &c.]195
—— [Tucuman]204
—— [Cuyo or Cujo]215
—— [Buenos Ayres]220
[History, &c].220
[Climate, Features, &c.]222
[Captain Generalship of Chili]230
[Extent and Boundaries]230
[Political and Territorial Divisions and Government]231
[Discovery, and History]231
[Climate, Features, &c.]245
[Population]253
[Animals]253
[Continental Provinces of Chili]264
[Province of Copiapo]265
—— [Coquimbo]265
—— [Quillota]267
—— [Aconcagua]269
—— [Melipilla]270
—— [Santiago]271
—— [Rancagua]272
—— [Colchagua]273
——[ Maule]274
—— [Itata]276
—— [Chillan]276
—— [Puchacay]277
—— [Huilquilemu]279
[Insular Chili]282
[Archipelago of Chiloe]283
[Araucania or Indian Chili]287
[Islands on the Coasts of Spanish South America]294
[Plate and Description of comparative Altitudes of the Mountains]301
[List of Works on or relating to Spanish America], quoted in this publication, &c.305
[Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of the principal Place]s311
[Summary of the Population]319
[Wealth and Revenue]320
[Index]321

ERRATA.

Pages 27, line 18, for Angelo read Antonio.
28, 10, for converziones read conversaziones.
82, 22, for omomum read amomum.
127, 3, from bottom, for Tarmu read Tarma.
164, 8, for Uraguay read Uruguay.
182, 11, from bottom, for Neustra read Nuestra.
250, 4, from bottom for Totten read Tolten.
251, 3, for Caquil read Caguil.
278, 2 and 4, for Lautro read Lautaro.

SPANISH AMERICA.

PART II.
SOUTH AMERICAN DOMINIONS.
(CONTINUED.)

CAPTAIN-GENERALSHIP OF CARACCAS.

Caraccas is a name taken from that of a tribe of Indians, and given to a country which includes New Andalusia, or Cumana, with Margarita, Barcelona, Venezuela, or Caraccas Proper, Maracaybo and Coro, on the coast of the Caribbean sea, Varinas and Spanish Guiana in the interior.