. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Z]Z A Af E %^I C A. Chap. V. Hilt Elmal <Pai*, which confifts of great Stones and Aflies, wonderfully mixt toge- ther : No lefs wonderful is a Brook which flows in the Night till Morning and then finks into the Ground : And in the Countrey Choluteca is another, which hides k lelf at Noon, and appears again towards Night. The Cavern which formerly produe'd Fire and Smoke, now affords good Water to the Village Curcatan, and City Salvador : Near the Village I^tepegve are five Springs, which call up Allom and Sulphur. The Natives Chontales which fpeak feveral Languages, flock to the Village Mmilla, to make Offerings, not far from hence are two Pits, one of which is full of boyling Water, and the other as cold as Ice: Moreover, Cocori lies near a high Mountain, on the top of which is a very turbulent Lake. The chiefeft Haven of this Countrey, which lies along the South-Sea, is w» %o. drigas de Fonfeca, Bifhop of Burgos ? In the middle thereof appears the Ifland Spain, the chiefeft part of the Northern America, reckons in length from the Eaft-Point of Yucatan, to the place where JMechoacon juts againft Gua- dalajara three hundred and fixty Leagues ; and in breadth from the Northern parts oifanucos, to the Southern Ocean, a hundred and eighty Leagues; befides a great part which lies to the Northward , behind inacceflable Mountain
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