, the residence of Gusman is in lat. 21 deg.45'N. The
mouth of the river St Francis, on the north-eastern shore of the gulf
of California, is in lat. 26 deg. 40' N. so that the discovery on the
present occasion seems to have comprised about 350 miles to the north
of Xalis.--E.

[73] Gomar. Hist. Gen. II. Lxxiv. xcviii.

[74] Xauxa or Jauja, stands on the high table land of Peru; Lima, or de
los Reys, near the coast of the South Sea, in the maritime valley, or
low country, and on the river Rimac, called Lima in the text.--E.

[75] Gomar. Hist. Gen. IV. xxiii. and V. xxii.

[76] Gomar. H. G. V. xxiv. and xxv. Almagro appears, both on his march to
Chili and back to Cusco, to have gone by the high mountainous track
of the Andes, and the carcases of his dead horses must have been
preserved from corruption amid the ever during ice and snow of that
elevated region.--E.

[77] The text seems ambiguous, and it appears difficult to say whether
Galvano means, that Cosesofar, or Coje Sofar, was captain under
D'Acunha, or general of the Guzerat army, belonging to Badu.--E.

[78] This probably refers to the _Bore_, or great and sudden influx of
the sea, after a great recession.--E.

[79] Gomar. H. G. IV. xiii.

[80] Probably a mistake for La Paz, the principal town of the north-
western district, or mining province, belonging to the Viceroyalty of
La Plata.--E.

[81] The only island mentioned in this voyage, which can be traced by the
names in our modern maps, is the Piscadores, about lat. 11 deg. N. long.
167 deg. E.--E.

[82] This strange expression is quite inexplicable, and must have been
misunderstood by Hakluyt.--E.

[83] Probably Morty, of our present maps.--E.

[84] Chron. del Peru, c. ix, xx.

[85] Ramus. III. 356.

[86] This obviously refers to an inaccurate description of the Babyroussa.
--E.

[87] Gomar. H. G. II. lxiv. Ramus. III. 329.

[88] Gomar. H. G. VI. xvii.

[89] In this paragraph we have very vague indications of humming birds,
rattlesnakes, and of the animal now called Pecari.--E.

[90] Gomar. H. G. V. xxxv. and Chron. del Peru, c. 103.

[91] The word Brazil in the text obviously includes the whole flat country
to the east of the Andes, Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay, Buenos Ayres, and
Patagonia.--E.

[92] This idea, ever since the time of Lord Monboddo, has been renewed,
and occupies the attention of t