. 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. . Sect. II. Vera Paz. m Bra To*, or The Country of True Teace, wasfo nam'dby the Spaniards, as they situationana fay, becaufe it was never conquered by the Sword, but redue'd to ObedU Bounds' ence onely by the Preaching of the Dominican Fryers. It is bounded on the Weft and South-Weft with Cbiapa . on the Eaft with fome part of Guatimala and Honduras * and on the North with. Jucatan. It contains about thirty Leagues in length, and almoft as much in breadth, being a woody and mountainous Countrey for the moft part, yet well diftinguifh'd with Valleys and lower Ground. It is much fubject to Rain, which 'tis faid to have for nine Moneths of the Year almoft continually; by reafon whereof the Countrey, being otherwife hot, is much an- noy'd with a kind o[Mofquit, or great fort of Gnats, which fpoil the Fruit very much, and are otherwife not a little trouble to the People. Moreover,there happen oftentimes terrible Earthquakes and Storms, with Thunder and Lightning. The chief Commodities of this Countrey, are a kind of Amber, which fome call commoii- Ltquid Amber, which drops from divers of their Trees, and is faid to be a Commo- &8£ dity very precious, and of much ufe . Maftick, Sanguis Draconic, Gum Anime, Sarfapa- rtlla, C^M-Wood, and divers other Medicinal Drugs, which it affordeth in great plenty. The Woods afford a fweet fmell, and
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